The following obituary provided by Find A Graver Karen Griswold Stroh. Thank you Karen.
James Perry Muri (Jim) was born Oct. 19, 1918, in Cartersville, Mont., and passed on Feb. 3, 2013, in Laurel, Mont., at the age of 94.
Jim was the second child born to Rasmus P. and Nelle Muri.
Jim was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Alice (Moyer); brothers Andy and wife Lorraine (Lockie), Bob (Jeanne Lockie); and his beloved sister Anna Mae (Bill Leichner).
Jim is survived by his children, Jim (Jan Kishida) of Puyallup Wash., and Sylvia (Ron Saadati) of Kingsport, Tenn.; older brother Bill (Virginia Reid), younger brothers Buck (Dannie Lockie), Karl (Joyce Criswell), and Pete (Anita Shores), all of Miles City, Mont.; and his sister Marie (Chuck Ansoms) of Southern California. Jim has seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Jim is a graduate of Custer County High School of Miles City class of 1936 and was an active member of the basketball, football and track teams, as well as the aeronautics club.
Jim retired in 1959 as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Air Force. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross (the nation's second-highest military award) for his service as an Army Air Corps B26 pilot in the crucial and historic Battle of Midway.
Jim had a wonderful, love-filled, 60-year marriage to Alice Anne Moyer of Riverside, Calif. Jim named his Midway B26 after Alice's nickname, "Susie Q."
Jim had many interesting experiences and was a renowned storyteller. Jim loved telling people of his wild years in northeast Montana and his many military adventures. How many of those stories were 100 percent accurate?? Only Jim knew. But they were wonderful stories for all of us to hear. What Jim knew was that there was nobody left to argue the truth of these stories.
Jim was a true patriot in our nation's greatest generation and was the last PROUD surviving B26 crew member from the Battle of Midway.
Services are planned Thursday, Feb. 7, at 3 p.m. at Michelotti-Sawyers Mortuary, 1001 Alderson Ave., Billings.
Separate services will be held Friday, Feb. 8, in Miles City. (See Miles City Star for details.)
In lieu of flowers, Jim would love donations to be sent to The Crossings, 600 Roundhouse Drive, Laurel, MT 59044, where he thoroughly enjoyed his last three years.
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Midway battle hero Muri dies
Billings, Mont. - World War II pilot James Muri, who saved his crippled B-26 bomber and crew by buzzing the flight deck of a Japanese aircraft carrier during the Battle of Midway, has died in Billings. He was 93.
On June 4th, 1942, Muri piloted one of four B-26 bombers that took off from Midway Island to attack a Japanese fleet planning to invade the U.S. outpost about 1,100 miles northwest of Hawaii.
Jananese fighter planes shot the bombers with machine guns and cannons.
Muri's bomber was struck and three crewmen were wounded, but he launched a torpedo at the aircraft carrier Akagi and then flew the plane down its flight deck to avoid the ship's guns, which were all pointed outward.
After the plane crash-landed on Midway Island, officials counted more than 500 bullet holes in the bomber.
Muri and his crew were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In 2003, Muri received the Jimmy Doolittle Award for outstanding service to the U.S. Army Air Corps.
printed in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, February 6, 2013, page 9A. By the Associated Press.
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A link (provided by Find A Grave contributor, Jason O) to a version of an article about James Muri that appeared in print on page A26 of the New York edition of the New York Times on February 10, 2013 New York Times article
James Perry Muri (Jim) was born Oct. 19, 1918, in Cartersville, Mont., and passed on Feb. 3, 2013, in Laurel, Mont., at the age of 94.
Jim was the second child born to Rasmus P. and Nelle Muri.
Jim was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Alice (Moyer); brothers Andy and wife Lorraine (Lockie), Bob (Jeanne Lockie); and his beloved sister Anna Mae (Bill Leichner).
Jim is survived by his children, Jim (Jan Kishida) of Puyallup Wash., and Sylvia (Ron Saadati) of Kingsport, Tenn.; older brother Bill (Virginia Reid), younger brothers Buck (Dannie Lockie), Karl (Joyce Criswell), and Pete (Anita Shores), all of Miles City, Mont.; and his sister Marie (Chuck Ansoms) of Southern California. Jim has seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Jim is a graduate of Custer County High School of Miles City class of 1936 and was an active member of the basketball, football and track teams, as well as the aeronautics club.
Jim retired in 1959 as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Air Force. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross (the nation's second-highest military award) for his service as an Army Air Corps B26 pilot in the crucial and historic Battle of Midway.
Jim had a wonderful, love-filled, 60-year marriage to Alice Anne Moyer of Riverside, Calif. Jim named his Midway B26 after Alice's nickname, "Susie Q."
Jim had many interesting experiences and was a renowned storyteller. Jim loved telling people of his wild years in northeast Montana and his many military adventures. How many of those stories were 100 percent accurate?? Only Jim knew. But they were wonderful stories for all of us to hear. What Jim knew was that there was nobody left to argue the truth of these stories.
Jim was a true patriot in our nation's greatest generation and was the last PROUD surviving B26 crew member from the Battle of Midway.
Services are planned Thursday, Feb. 7, at 3 p.m. at Michelotti-Sawyers Mortuary, 1001 Alderson Ave., Billings.
Separate services will be held Friday, Feb. 8, in Miles City. (See Miles City Star for details.)
In lieu of flowers, Jim would love donations to be sent to The Crossings, 600 Roundhouse Drive, Laurel, MT 59044, where he thoroughly enjoyed his last three years.
END OBITUARY
The following article provided by Find A Graver Cara. Thank you Cara.
Midway battle hero Muri dies
Billings, Mont. - World War II pilot James Muri, who saved his crippled B-26 bomber and crew by buzzing the flight deck of a Japanese aircraft carrier during the Battle of Midway, has died in Billings. He was 93.
On June 4th, 1942, Muri piloted one of four B-26 bombers that took off from Midway Island to attack a Japanese fleet planning to invade the U.S. outpost about 1,100 miles northwest of Hawaii.
Jananese fighter planes shot the bombers with machine guns and cannons.
Muri's bomber was struck and three crewmen were wounded, but he launched a torpedo at the aircraft carrier Akagi and then flew the plane down its flight deck to avoid the ship's guns, which were all pointed outward.
After the plane crash-landed on Midway Island, officials counted more than 500 bullet holes in the bomber.
Muri and his crew were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In 2003, Muri received the Jimmy Doolittle Award for outstanding service to the U.S. Army Air Corps.
printed in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, February 6, 2013, page 9A. By the Associated Press.
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A link (provided by Find A Grave contributor, Jason O) to a version of an article about James Muri that appeared in print on page A26 of the New York edition of the New York Times on February 10, 2013 New York Times article
The following obituary provided by Find A Graver Karen Griswold Stroh. Thank you Karen.
James Perry Muri (Jim) was born Oct. 19, 1918, in Cartersville, Mont., and passed on Feb. 3, 2013, in Laurel, Mont., at the age of 94.
Jim was the second child born to Rasmus P. and Nelle Muri.
Jim was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Alice (Moyer); brothers Andy and wife Lorraine (Lockie), Bob (Jeanne Lockie); and his beloved sister Anna Mae (Bill Leichner).
Jim is survived by his children, Jim (Jan Kishida) of Puyallup Wash., and Sylvia (Ron Saadati) of Kingsport, Tenn.; older brother Bill (Virginia Reid), younger brothers Buck (Dannie Lockie), Karl (Joyce Criswell), and Pete (Anita Shores), all of Miles City, Mont.; and his sister Marie (Chuck Ansoms) of Southern California. Jim has seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Jim is a graduate of Custer County High School of Miles City class of 1936 and was an active member of the basketball, football and track teams, as well as the aeronautics club.
Jim retired in 1959 as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Air Force. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross (the nation's second-highest military award) for his service as an Army Air Corps B26 pilot in the crucial and historic Battle of Midway.
Jim had a wonderful, love-filled, 60-year marriage to Alice Anne Moyer of Riverside, Calif. Jim named his Midway B26 after Alice's nickname, "Susie Q."
Jim had many interesting experiences and was a renowned storyteller. Jim loved telling people of his wild years in northeast Montana and his many military adventures. How many of those stories were 100 percent accurate?? Only Jim knew. But they were wonderful stories for all of us to hear. What Jim knew was that there was nobody left to argue the truth of these stories.
Jim was a true patriot in our nation's greatest generation and was the last PROUD surviving B26 crew member from the Battle of Midway.
Services are planned Thursday, Feb. 7, at 3 p.m. at Michelotti-Sawyers Mortuary, 1001 Alderson Ave., Billings.
Separate services will be held Friday, Feb. 8, in Miles City. (See Miles City Star for details.)
In lieu of flowers, Jim would love donations to be sent to The Crossings, 600 Roundhouse Drive, Laurel, MT 59044, where he thoroughly enjoyed his last three years.
END OBITUARY
The following article provided by Find A Graver Cara. Thank you Cara.
Midway battle hero Muri dies
Billings, Mont. - World War II pilot James Muri, who saved his crippled B-26 bomber and crew by buzzing the flight deck of a Japanese aircraft carrier during the Battle of Midway, has died in Billings. He was 93.
On June 4th, 1942, Muri piloted one of four B-26 bombers that took off from Midway Island to attack a Japanese fleet planning to invade the U.S. outpost about 1,100 miles northwest of Hawaii.
Jananese fighter planes shot the bombers with machine guns and cannons.
Muri's bomber was struck and three crewmen were wounded, but he launched a torpedo at the aircraft carrier Akagi and then flew the plane down its flight deck to avoid the ship's guns, which were all pointed outward.
After the plane crash-landed on Midway Island, officials counted more than 500 bullet holes in the bomber.
Muri and his crew were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In 2003, Muri received the Jimmy Doolittle Award for outstanding service to the U.S. Army Air Corps.
printed in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, February 6, 2013, page 9A. By the Associated Press.
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A link (provided by Find A Grave contributor, Jason O) to a version of an article about James Muri that appeared in print on page A26 of the New York edition of the New York Times on February 10, 2013 New York Times article
James Perry Muri (Jim) was born Oct. 19, 1918, in Cartersville, Mont., and passed on Feb. 3, 2013, in Laurel, Mont., at the age of 94.
Jim was the second child born to Rasmus P. and Nelle Muri.
Jim was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Alice (Moyer); brothers Andy and wife Lorraine (Lockie), Bob (Jeanne Lockie); and his beloved sister Anna Mae (Bill Leichner).
Jim is survived by his children, Jim (Jan Kishida) of Puyallup Wash., and Sylvia (Ron Saadati) of Kingsport, Tenn.; older brother Bill (Virginia Reid), younger brothers Buck (Dannie Lockie), Karl (Joyce Criswell), and Pete (Anita Shores), all of Miles City, Mont.; and his sister Marie (Chuck Ansoms) of Southern California. Jim has seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Jim is a graduate of Custer County High School of Miles City class of 1936 and was an active member of the basketball, football and track teams, as well as the aeronautics club.
Jim retired in 1959 as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Air Force. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross (the nation's second-highest military award) for his service as an Army Air Corps B26 pilot in the crucial and historic Battle of Midway.
Jim had a wonderful, love-filled, 60-year marriage to Alice Anne Moyer of Riverside, Calif. Jim named his Midway B26 after Alice's nickname, "Susie Q."
Jim had many interesting experiences and was a renowned storyteller. Jim loved telling people of his wild years in northeast Montana and his many military adventures. How many of those stories were 100 percent accurate?? Only Jim knew. But they were wonderful stories for all of us to hear. What Jim knew was that there was nobody left to argue the truth of these stories.
Jim was a true patriot in our nation's greatest generation and was the last PROUD surviving B26 crew member from the Battle of Midway.
Services are planned Thursday, Feb. 7, at 3 p.m. at Michelotti-Sawyers Mortuary, 1001 Alderson Ave., Billings.
Separate services will be held Friday, Feb. 8, in Miles City. (See Miles City Star for details.)
In lieu of flowers, Jim would love donations to be sent to The Crossings, 600 Roundhouse Drive, Laurel, MT 59044, where he thoroughly enjoyed his last three years.
END OBITUARY
The following article provided by Find A Graver Cara. Thank you Cara.
Midway battle hero Muri dies
Billings, Mont. - World War II pilot James Muri, who saved his crippled B-26 bomber and crew by buzzing the flight deck of a Japanese aircraft carrier during the Battle of Midway, has died in Billings. He was 93.
On June 4th, 1942, Muri piloted one of four B-26 bombers that took off from Midway Island to attack a Japanese fleet planning to invade the U.S. outpost about 1,100 miles northwest of Hawaii.
Jananese fighter planes shot the bombers with machine guns and cannons.
Muri's bomber was struck and three crewmen were wounded, but he launched a torpedo at the aircraft carrier Akagi and then flew the plane down its flight deck to avoid the ship's guns, which were all pointed outward.
After the plane crash-landed on Midway Island, officials counted more than 500 bullet holes in the bomber.
Muri and his crew were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In 2003, Muri received the Jimmy Doolittle Award for outstanding service to the U.S. Army Air Corps.
printed in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, February 6, 2013, page 9A. By the Associated Press.
END ARTICLE
A link (provided by Find A Grave contributor, Jason O) to a version of an article about James Muri that appeared in print on page A26 of the New York edition of the New York Times on February 10, 2013 New York Times article
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