WOODROW WILSON HIGH SCHOOL Alumni
PORTLAND, OREGON
MILITARY SPOTLIGHT
FRANCIS MURRAY (WILSON TEACHER) DECEASED
US ARMY 1945-1947
Wilson teacher Francis Eugene Murray died Jan. 12, 1998 of cancer at age 70. Mr. Murray was born Jan. 28, 1927, in Detroit. He moved to Portland in the late 1930s and graduated from Central Catholic High School in 1945. He served in the U.S. Army from 1945-1947. A 1951 graduate of the University of Portland, he received his master's in 1958. He was a teacher, working for Franklin High from 1953-1964 and Wilson High from 1965-1987, serving as English department chairman from 1975-1987. He married Betty Hart in 1950.