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Aug 4 Family, furniture and hard work: The legacy of the Wilbur Murray family lives on at Murray's Furniture and Ashley in Hood River

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Christine Brandt is now part of the third generation of Murrays to own and operate furniture stores in Hood River - Murrays Furniture, 981 Tucker Road and Ashley Furniture, 1105 Tucker Road. It all began quite humbly with her grandfather Wilbur Murray with an auction yard at the corner of Forden Road and Belmont Drive in 1961.