SPRUK MURPHY, CHRISTINE HELEN - Adair County, Missouri | CHRISTINE HELEN SPRUK MURPHY - Missouri Gravestone Photos

Christine Helen SPRUK MURPHY

Forest-Llewellyn Cemetery
Adair County,
Missouri

Christine
Sept 26, 1905 - Apr 18, 1991
Marshall
Mar 4, 1898 - July 12, 1950
Obituary
KIRKSVILLE DAILY EXPRESS, Kirksville, Missouri
April 1991.
CHRISTINE HELEN MURPHY
---Christine Helen Murphy, 86, of Kirksville, Missouri, passed away Thrusday morning (April 18, 1991) at the Grim-Smith Hospital in Kirksville.
---The daughter of John and Anna Uher Spruk, she was born September 26, 1904 in Irving, Pennsylvania. On January 31, 1921 in Kirksville, Missouri, she was united in marriage to Marshall H. Murphy who preceded her in death on July 12, 1950. Also preceding her in death were her parents; one son, Hershall "Hoot" Murphy in 1973; two brothers; two sisters and one grandson, Dennis L. Ford.
---Surviving are two daughters, Anna E. Ford of Kirksville, Missouri and Naomi Ferguson of Brookline, Missouri; one sister, Roslie Supancic of Pittsburg, Kansas; three granddaughters, Kathy Ann Ford Kelly, Nancy E. Ferguson and Patti Murphy Carmack; three grandsons, Michael D. Ferguson, Michael H. Murphy and Mark D. Murphy and five great-grandchildren, Christopher, Cyle and Catie Kelly and Heather and Amy Carmack.
---Mrs. Murphy moved to Kirksville, Missouri seventy years ago from Novinger to make her home. After her husbands death in 1950 she continued to manage the M.H. Murphy Coal Service for several years. She was last employed with the International Shoe Factory in Kirksville for several years.
---She was a member of the First Christian Church in Kirksville.
---Funeral services will be held at two o'clock Saturday (April 20, 1991) at the Travis-Noe Funeral Home in Kirksville, Missouri. The Rev. Frank Hall will conduct the services. Music will be provided by Cheryl Newland, organist and Carlyle Walker, soloist. Selections will be "Amazing Grace" and "The Old Rugged Cross". Burial will be in the Forest Llewellyn Cemetery in Kirksville, Missouri.
---Casket beareers will be: Bob Dabney, Bob Adams, Charles Kelly, Harvey Rogers, Harold Smith and Bill Baiotto.
---Visitation is in progress at the Travis-Noe Funeral Home, Kirksville, Mo.
---The family will receive friends from seven to nine o'clock this evening in the funeral home chapel.

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