Texas Philanthropist Gives to South Arkansas Center on Aging
Madelyne Murphy McCarty has made a gift of $5,000 to the new South Arkansas Center on Aging in El Dorado.

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NOV. 15, 2001 | A Texas philanthropist who supports civic projects in Union County, Ark., has made a gift of $5,000 to the new South Arkansas Center on Aging in El Dorado.

The center is a partnership program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its Donald W. Reynolds Center on Aging.

Madelyne Murphy McCarty of Dallas made the gift from the Madelyne Murphy and Edward C. McCarty Fund, which she endowed to support projects for the benefit of citizens of El Dorado.

The Union County Community Foundation administers the McCarty Fund. The foundation earlier made a gift to the center in honor of Elizabeth Pruet of El Dorado.

Mrs. McCarty is the daughter of Claudia Murphy and Thomas David Murphy and a descendant of pioneer Union County settlers. She was graduated from El Dorado High School in 1927 and attended Hendrix College. She met her husband, Edward Clarence McCarty, when he moved to El Dorado to accept a banking position, and they were married in 1930. 

 



Madelyne Murphy McCarty


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 Mr. McCarty was born in Marion County, Ark., grew up in Yellville, and attended Hendrix College. His career in banking began in 1924 with the Federal Reserve Bank in Little Rock. During the early years of their marriage, Mr. McCarty's career led the couple from El Dorado to New Mexico, and then to east Texas at the height of the oil boom. Excited by the challenges and opportunities associated with the burgeoning oil industry, Mr. McCarty left banking in 1935 to join the Sabine Royalty Corporation. The McCartys moved to Dallas in 1940. Before he retired in 1976, Mr. McCarty rose to president and chairman of the board of Sabine Royalty Corporation. During his active years in the oil industry, he held office in many industry-related associations and participated in civic and social affairs in Dallas. He died in 1988. He was named a Distinguished Native Son of Arkansas by Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, and his company established the Edward C. McCarty Centennial Professorship in his honor at the University of Texas School of Business.

Mrs. McCarty has been actively involved in civic, cultural and social affairs in Dallas for many years. Mr. and Mrs. McCarty's daughter, Martha, is married to Harold Kimmerling, M.D.; they have two children, Duncan and Amy.

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UAMS Opens: http://www.uams.edu/today/101101/eldorado.htm
Center on Aging: http://centeronaging.uams.edu/

Union County Community Foundation: http://www.fftc.org/family/union.html
 

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