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William 'Bill' Durow
WILLIAM "BILL" DUROW
Center Point
William "Bill" Durow, 72, of Center Point, passed away Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019, at the Hiawatha Care Center. The family will greet friends from 2 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, at Murdoch Funeral
Home & Cremation Service in Center Point. Graveside services will follow at the Center Point Cemetery with the Rev. Mike Ellson officiating.
Bill was born March 3, 1947, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the son of Raymond and Evelyn (Kratzer) Durow. He graduated from Washington High School, as well as Northeast Missouri State University. Bill was a Mason all his life and a current member of the Methodist Church in Center Point. In 2015, Bill, retired from the United States Small Business Administration in the Washington, D.C., area where he had lived and worked the last 20 years.
He is survived by his mother, Evelyn Durow, and was preceded in death by his "dad," Raymond, and grandparents.
Please share a memory of Bill at www.murdochfuneralhome.com under obituaries.
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