Maurice Eugene Jury, age 100, passed away on January 5, 2021 of natural causes in Shawano, WI. Maurice was born, the first of five children, to Albin E. and Bessie Katheryn (Byrum) Jury on May 19, 1920 in Bard, NM.

The family moved to Borger, TX in 1925 and Maurice's father established a dairy farm. Maurice graduated from Borger High School in June of 1939 and started a correspondence course to learn refrigeration. Those skills and his inborn engineering skills were utilized to make a cooler for refrigerating the milk. Maurice worked on the dairy for one year before enrolling in Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX to pursue a degree in electrical engineering from September 1941 through April of 1942. America was involved in World War II at that time, so he enlisted in the Army Air Corp. and started his service at Fort Sill, OK and was soon sent to Boston, MA for training in aerial engineering at the New England Aircraft School.

Maurice serviced C-47 airplanes and gliders in the South Pacific Islands and Australia. Flying with the planes (over 1,000 hours) and servicing them when on the ground. Maurice received the American Theatre Asiatic-Pacific Theatre with 4 Bronze Stars and the Philippine Liberation with 1 Bronze Star and a Victory Medal for Good Conduct ending his service as Staff Sergeant when the war ended in November of 1945. Maurice then returned to Texas Tech University and graduated in 1949 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, which led to a position with Allis-Chalmers in West Allis, WI working in the nuclear power department. He assisted with the development of a high-pressure water pump and control rod mechanism for a power plant in Sioux Falls, SD.

When the nuclear program ended, Maurice moved to Madison, WI and started a job as a design engineer with Oscar Mayer meat processing plant and was instrumental in the development of the mechanical process which turned raw pork into long 37-pound sticks of bologna, which cooked, sliced, packaged and froze the product from beginning to end, a 9-hour process.

When he turned 65 years old in 1985, he retired from Oscar Mayer and started a small engine repair business fixing neighbors' lawn mowers, snow blowers, weed whackers, dehumidifiers, and anything with a motor. Maurice also traveled the world with his last wife Josephine.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his sister, Florence Katheryn in 1933; his brother, Gene Ray in 2000; his brother, Victor in 2013; his first wife, Esther in 1972; and his last wife, Josephine in 2007.

He is survived by his brother, Dr. George W. Jury of Lubbock, TX and his loving caretaker, Lana Holland of Shawano, WI.

A memorial service is scheduled on Maurice's birthday, May 19, 2021, at 1:00pm, at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Madison, WI (pending COVID clearance).  Burial will be in Highland Memorial Park in New Berlin, WI.

Memorial donations can be made in his memory to Texas Tech Foundation, Inc. – Whitacre College of Engineering, P.O. Box 45025, Lubbock, TX 79409-5025. See the following article featuring Maurice's 100 ^th birthday – https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/retired-96-maurice-jury-celebrates-100-years