MAHURIN, James Ernest

Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Monday, March 26, 1956, page 1, column 6 J. E. Mahurin Dies After Heart Attack Funeral services will be held Tuesday for James Ernest Mahurin who died here Saturday after suffering a heart attack at the family home, 131 N. First. He died at a local hospital. Dr. Charles Franklin Parker will officiate at the service to be held at 2:30 p.m. at the Ruffner Chapel. The body will lie in state from 6 to 9 o'clock tonight at the chapel. Burial will be in the Mountain View Cemetery. Mr. Mahurin was born near Bakersfield, Calif., Feb. 23, 1876. He came with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mahurin and two sisters to Arizona seven years later. They settled in the Verde Valley and he became a cowboy. He later ranched and farmed there and in Skull Valley. He served as a peace officer at one time and was a member of the Elks Lodge. Survivors are his wife, Florence Mahurin; a daughter, Mrs. Owen Green, Winslow; two sisters, Mrs. Arthur Wood and Mrs. Etta Hankin, Prescott; three stepdaughters, Mrs. V. S. Holly, Glendale, Mrs. Martin Fischer, Denver, Mrs. Margaret Hards, Gunnison, Colo.; two grandsons, Ronnie Green, Winslow, and Eward Mahurin, Wilcox; a granddaughter, Mrs. Robert Herrick, Columbus, Ga.; a great- granddaughter, Linda Jo. Herrick, Columbus, Ga.; a news, Dan Hankin, Prescott.