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Notes for Thomas Everitt McDonald MURRAY
Information received from Peter Murray in 1997 shows that Thomas Everitt
McDonald Murray, "Tim," born June 9, 1910, was a farmer at Roode Bloem
farm, continued to live there after retirement, and died August 12, 1991,
aged 81. He had an important position in the Rotary Club and numerous
other appointments, and travelled all the time. He served in World War
II and was taken prisoner when his regiment was captured at Tobruk, and
was in a P.O.W. camp in Italy for a year before escaping into the
mountains with a friend. There they lived in hiding for another year,
keeping alive on wild plants, snails, etc. They were fed too by a family
of peasants (at great risk to themselves) whenever possible. He got home
in July 1944, and had visited his Italian peasant family whenever he had
been overseas, i.e. 1952, 1970, 1972, and 1976. He was a South African
Friesland Judge, and had judged in various African countries, including
three times in Rhodesia. He was president of the South African Friesland
Breeders Association and, as of 1979 or so had been for at least 15 or 16
years. He attended World Conferences in Italy in 1972, and in England in
1976 (at which he was the longest serving president of any Friesland
Breeders Association anywhere in the world). In 1970 he and his wife
Marie were guests of the Arabian Horse Breeders of the U.K., of the
British Friesland Breeders Society, of the Duke and Duchess of Rutland,
of the Canadian Holstein Friesland Association, of the Executive
Secretary of the Holstein Breeders Association of America, and were taken
on a visit of the top Studs in the United States. As of 1979 he had also
for about eight years been president of the South African Studbock
Association. He died unexpectedly from a massive heart attack in August
1991, a great shock to all who knew him.
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