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Frances
B. Murray Frances
B. Murray, 95, of 500 1st St. N. died of heart failure Tuesday, Oct. 23, at Park
Centre Health Care in Newton. Memorial services will be Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at
the First Presbyterian Church on Newton with the Rev. Tiare Mathison-Bowie
officiating. A private burial will be at Newton Union Cemetery. Reese Funeral
Home in Newton is handling arrangements. Immediate cremation took place.
The family will receive friends at a coffee following the service.
Memorials will be accepted
to the First Presbyterian Church or Newton Community Theatre. The
daughter of W. C. and Frances Haley Patrick, she was born July 27, 1906, in
Marceline, Mo. She graduated from
Marceline High School in 1925 and from Culver-Stockton College in 1929. On May
27, 1933, she married Alan Murray in Kansas City, Mo. They moved to Newton in
1933. Mrs.
Murray was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, PEO Chapter AO, and was
involved with the Newton Community Theatre since it’s beginning until the mid
1980s as director of plays and as an actress. She recorded for the blind through
the Commission For the Blind In Des Moines, reading books and texts for
recording. Survivors
include her husband; a son, Charles of Burkittsville, Md.; two daughters, Linda
Emmerson of Ames and Pricilla Conway of Dublin, Ireland; 10 grandchildren: and
five great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents. Newton
Daily News, Newton, IA, October 24, 2001. |
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