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George John Muyres Jr. died September 22, 2014 at his Helotes home surrounded by his wife and daughters. He was 89. George, who was known to his family as Jack, was born in Los Angeles, California on July 29, 1925 to George John Muyres and Alice Eilleen Griffin Muyres. He grew up on Santa Monica Blvd in Beverly Hills and graduated from Christian Brothers High School in May, 1942, two months before he joined the U.S. Navy. He served on a submarine during World War II and was honorably discharged in April, 1946. He was a deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department after the war and attended Los Angeles City College before he met his future wife, Betty Jean Cadena. They were married May 6, 1950 in Los Angeles and lived in Los Alamos, New Mexico where George worked on a U.S. Atomic Energy Commission project. After that assignment ended, the couple moved to Texas, living first in Fort Worth and moving later to the San Antonio area. George worked for Samuels Glass Co., The Stanley Works and Bartlett Cocke before he formed his own company, GJM Consulting. George was an expert in glass and glass wall construction and was retained to help restore the Texas Capitol dome as a result of that knowledge. A former president of the Construction Specification Institute, San Antonio chapter, George operated his company until a year before his death. He moved with his family to the Helotes area in 1968 and never left. George and his wife were active in Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church and in conservation and historic preservation efforts in the Helotes area. He was known as a hard-working man, who loved his family and the church and will be missed by many. Jack is survived by Betty Muyres, his wife of 64 years, two daughters, Maria Muyres Mappin and Lisa Muyres Pack, granddaughters Georgia M. Mappin, Taylor Pack Ellis and Regan A. Pack, grandsons, John H. and Joseph G. Mappin and son-in-law William M. Pack. SERVICES Visitation will be Sunday September 28, 2014 at 6 p.m. at Mission Park Funeral Chapels North. Funeral mass will be held on Monday September 29, 2014 at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Helotes. Interment will follow at Mission Park Retama.

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George John Muyres, Jr.

July 29, 1925 - September 22, 2014