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© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, June 5, 1957 Willie Juanita Murphy Girl Drowning Victim Is Found On River Drift The body of 8-year-old Willie Juanita Murphy, missing in the Washita river since May 19 was found last Friday by Paul Nestell, an Indian on the Nestell the lease a mile and a half west of Fort Cobb. The body was partially exposed among logs and rubbish of a river drift. Funeral services for the young girl were held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Oak Grove cemetery near Fort Cobb. Rev. Ted Ewing, Baptist minister, officiated and interment was made by the Fort Cobb funeral home. Scores of men from Carnegie and Fort Cobb areas spent several days and nights searching the lowland ravines and underbrush after it was first announced the little girl was missing from her trailer camp home on the banks of the river, four miles east of Carnegie. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Murphy, who formerly lived at Lindsay but who had been living in the river bottom since April, reported the child disappeared from the camp about 3 p.m. on May 19. Later, the girl's foot prints were found leading to the river's edge, where she apparently fell into the water. Paul Nestell, home on leave from the Navy, discovered the girl's body almost to the hour 13 days after the girl's disappearance. Nestell had gone to the river to see if flood waters were declining. He noticed something unusual in the drift and upon further investigation learned it was a body. He notified Cecil Pack, Fort Cobb marshall, who in turn notified Sheriff Ray Larison. The sherif and his deputies Troy Massey and A.J. Hooker, with a representative of the Fort Cobb funeral home, recovered the body. |
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