Obituaries - Mu
JER. REP. SEP. 3, 1903: MRS. MAGGIE E. MULBERRY
NEE CHRISTOPHER, BORN NEAR GIRARD, IL MAY 5, 1862. DIED AT E.
ST. LOUIS AUG. 25, 1903. ONLY DAU. OF HENRY M. AND HANNAH D.
CHRISTOPHER, NEE HANKINSON. GREW TO WOMANHOOD IN JERSEY THEN TO
GIRARD WITH HER MOTHER. MARRIED J.S. MULBERRY JUL 30, 1891. 41
YEARS. LEAVES HUSBAND AND FOUR CHILDREN. BURIED IN CEMETERY AT
CARROLLTON. (GIRARD GAZETTE)
DATED 11/14/57: BENTON G. MUNDY, ASSISTANT
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF HIGHWAYS IN JERSEY COUNTY, SUFFERED A
FATAL ILLNESS WEDNESDAY WHILE OPERATING A DRAGLINE NEAR THE
FULKERSON BRIDGE NORTH OF JERSEYVILLE. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT
THE JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS MOVED IN THE JACOBY BROS.
AMBULANCE. DEATH WAS ATTRIBUTED TO A CORONARY ATTACK. MR. MUNDY
HAD BEEN AN EMPLOYEE OF THE COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT FOR THE
PAST THIRTY YEARS SERVING UNDER EUGENE WITT AND THE LATE PAXTON
WITT. FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF THE LATTER MR. MUNDY SERVED AS
ACTING SUPERINTENDENT FOR TWO YEARS, AND THEN BECAME ASSISTANT
SUPERINTENDENT WORKING WITH THE PRESENT SUPERINTENDENT, GEORGE
C. CLAUSEN. THE DECEDENT WAS BORN IN GREENE COUNTY, JAN. 22,
1901, A SON OF THE LATE JOHN T. AND ANNA BELLE CRAWFORD MUNDY.
HIS AGE AT THE TIME OF DEATH WAS FIFTY SIX YEARS, NINE MONTHS
AND TWENTY ONE DAYS. MR. MUNDY IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, MRS.
LILLIE DUNHAM MUNDY; FOUR DAUGHTERS, MRS. ALONZO COCHRAN OF
ELDORADO, MRS. HUGH SNELL OF JERSEYVILLE, MRS. GILBERT TURNER
AND MISS REBECCA MUNDY OF JERSEYVILLE; ONE BROTHER, SHERMAN
MUNDY OF CARROLLTON; ONE SISTER, MRS. JAMES COCHRAN OF GRANITE
CITY, AND SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN. FRIENDS MAY CALL AT THE MUNDY
HOME AT 600 EAST ARCH STREET AFTER SEVEN O'CLOCK THIS (THURSDAY)
EVENING UNTIL ELEVEN O'CLOCK SATURDAY MORNING, AND THEN AT
JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME WHERE SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT TWO
O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON. REV. DORCIE HILL WILL OFFICIATE AND
BURIAL WILL BE IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY.
DATED 5/3/79: SERVICES FOR CHARLES WESLEY MUNDY,
63, OF RURAL FIELDON WILL BE HELD AT 1 PM FRI AT JACOBY BROS
FUNERAL HOME WITH THE REV. WILBUR CAIN OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL
BE IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. HIS DEATH OCCURRED AT 8:45 PM APR. 30
AT BLU-FOUNTAIN MANOR IN GODFREY. BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY MAR 7
1916 HE WAS A SON OF HARVEY V. AND ROZENA CRAWFORD MUNDY AND WAS
A LABORER. HIS SURVIVORS ARE HIS WIFE, THE FORMER JULIA
PITCHFORD WHOM HE MARRIED DEC. 31, 1938; ONE SON, HARVEY L.
MUNDY OF YUMA, ARIZ; THREE DAUGS., SHILEY SKAGGS, VICTORIA,
TEX., NANCY BIRKENSTOCK, WOODSON TERRACE, MO, AND LOIS
GREENWELL, KANE; 11 GRANDCHILDREN. ALSO SURVIVING ARE FOUR
BROTHERS, ROY MUNDY, ALTON, AL, BRIGHTON, ROBERT, EUGENE, ORE.
AND RICHARD, SEATTLE, WASH.; SEVEN SISTERS, BETTY OF ARIZ,
MARTHA MCQUAGGE, WASH., ALDORA MILLER, EILEEN CREW, LELA
WILLIAMS AND LILLIAN LAMPARTER OF ALTON. VISITATION FROM 4 TO 9
PM THURS AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME WHERE MASONIC SERVICES WILL
BE CONDUCTED AT 7 PM. THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY HAS BEEN
DESIGNATED AS A MEMORIAL.
DATED JUN 4, 1984: JERSEYVILLE- KEITH MUNDY,
76, DIED AT 12:50 AM SUNDAY AT CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL NORTHEAST IN
ST. LOUIS AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS. HE WAS A PARTNER IN THE MUNDY
LUMBER AND SUPPLY CO. IN JERSEYVILLE. IN 1924 HE BEGAN WORK FOR
THE ALEC ROBB LUMBER AND COAL CO. THAT COMPANY LATER BECAME THE
JACOBS LUMBER AND COAL CO. OF WHICH HE BECAME A PARTNER IN 1954.
IN 1956, IT BECAME THE MUNDY LUMBER AND SUPPLY CO., IN WHICH HE
WAS ACTIVE UNTIL THREE WEEKS AGO. HE WAS BORN IN KANE, THE SON
OF THE LATE JAMES A. AND GRACE (WHEELER) MUNDY. HE MARRIED THE
FORMER VIVIAN DOWNEY SEP 2, 1933 IN JERSEYVILLE AND SHE
SURVIVES. ALSO SURVIVING ARE ONE DAU., JANE WAINWRIGHT OF
DENVER, COLO.; ONE SON, JAMES OF JERSEYVILLE, TWO GRANDCHILDREN;
ONE SISTER, IRMA TERPENING OF KANE; AND ONE BROTHER, LOUIS O. OF
ROSEWOOD HEIGHTS. VISITATION WILL BE AFTER 4 PM TODAY AT GUBSER
FUNERAL HOME IN JERSEYVILLE. SERVICES WILL BE AT THE FUNERAL
HOME TUES. AT 10:30 AM WITH THE REV. V.CLAY NOAH, JR. PRESIDING.
BURIAL WILL BE IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY IN JERSEYVILLE. MEMORIALS
ARE SUGGESTED TO SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN AND THE
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF JERSEYVILLE, OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER.
FROM DEMOCRAT NEWS DATED MAR.23, 1982: ANNA C. MURPHY,
92, DIED MARCH 19 AT GREENWOOD MANOR. FUNERAL FROM ST. FRANCIS
CHURCH. BURIAL IN ST. FRANCIS CEMETERY. BORN IN JERSEY CO. APRIL
6, 1889 DAUGHTER OF RICHARD AND RACHEL KELLY ALWARD. LEAVES TWO
SONS, WILLIAM OF HETTICK AND GENE OF GREENFIELD. THREE
DAUGHTERS, MRS. THOMAS ALLEN AND MARY FRENCH OF JERSEYVILLE AND
MRS. ANNA MARIE DREW OF HAVANA. 11 GRANDCHILDREN, SIX GREAT
GRANDCHILDREN. HUSBAND ANDREW MURPHY WHOM SHE MARRIED MARCH 24,
1914, DIED MAR. 13, 1949.
WORD WAS RECEIVED SUNDAY, JAN. 10, OF THE DEATH OF
FRANCIS (PAT) MURPHY, SON OF MRS. FLORENCE MURPHY,
FORMERLY OF JERSEYVILLE, AND THE LATE JAMES F. MURPHY. DEATH,
DUE TO TERMINAL CANCER, FOLLOWED AN ILLNESS OF TWO WEEKS. HIS
BROTHER, FATHER JOSPEH MURPHY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, HAD BEEN
AT HIS BEDSIDE THROUGHOUT HIS ILLNESS AND WAS CELEBRANT OF THE
FUNERAL MASS WED. MORNING, JAN 13 AT NINE O'CLOCK AT HOLY
TRINITY CHURCH IN EL CAJON, CALIFORNIA. MR. MURPHY IS SURVIVED
BY HIS WIFE, JUNE; HIS DAUGHTERS, JOAN, ROBERTA, PATRICIA AND
REBECCA; HIS MOTHER, MRS. JAMES F. MURPHY OF THE LORETTO HOME,
ALTON; TWO BROTHERS, FATHER MURPHY AND JAY MURPHY OF ALTON; AND
FOUR SISTERS, MRS. CATHERINE KALLAL OF GREENFIELD, MISS MARIE
MURPHY OF ST. LOUIS, MRS. FLORENCE METZGER OF ELKHART, INDIANA,
AND MRS. MILDRED DUNCAN OF CINCINNATI, OHIO. MR. MURPHY HAD
SPENT THE GREATER PART OF HIS LIFE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WHERE
HE OWNED AND OPERATED THE MURPHY ART GALLERY.
DATED FEB., 1947: HENRY C. MURPHY OF
JERSEYVILLE DIED AT ONE O'CLOCK THURS. AFTERNOON FEB. 13, AT OUR
SAVIOUR'S HOSPITAL IN JACKSONVILLE WHERE HE HAD BEEN REMOVED FOR
TREATMENT THE PRECEDING DAY. PRIOR TO HIS REMOVAL TO THE
HOSPITAL HE HAD BEEN ILL AT THE HOME OF HIS DAU., MRS. MAGGIE
TALLEY NEAR WOODY FOR A FEW MONTHS. THE DECEASED WAS THE SON OF
THE LATE MR. AND MRS. LEVI MURPHY AND WAS BORN IN GREENE COUNTY,
JULY 14, 1876. HIS AGE AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH WAS SEVENTY
YEARS, SIX MONTHS, AND TWENTY-NINE DAYS. MR. MURPHY IS SURVIVED
BY ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. TALLEY OF WOODY; THREE SONS, WARREN AND
HAROLD MURPHY OF ALTON, AND KENNETH MURPHY OF JERSEYVILLE; SIX
GRANDCHILDREN; AND TWO BROTHERS, STANFORD MURPHY OF OKLAHOMA,
AND WILLIAM MURPHY OF JERSEYVILLE. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT
THE GUBSER FUNERAL HOME SUNDAY, FEB. 16, AT TWO O'CLOCK. THE
REV. LEROY FILBY OFFICIATED AND INTERMENT WAS IN THE BORLIN
CEMETERY.
JERSEY REPUBLICAN DATED NOV. 2, 1911: JAMES MURPHY
OF KANE DIED AT HOME OCT. 25. 78 YEARS OLD. LEAVES WIDOW AND
THREE SONS, GEORGE OF SEATTLE, WASH., FRED OF ALTON AND ED AND A
DAUGHER SOMEWHERE IN THE EAST. BODY TAKEN TO JERSEYVILLE.
FUNERAL FROM CATHOLIC CHURCH.
JERSEY REPUBLICAN DATED JAN. 27, 1898: MATTHEW MURPHY
DIED AT HIS HOME IN JERSEYVILLE JAN. 19, 1898. 57 YEARS OF AGE.
FUNERAL FROM ST. FRANCIS CHURCH. REVS. HARTY, MURPHY, AND
O'HARA. PALLBEARERS: DAVID ROACH, JAMES GIBBONS, MICHAEL HERITY,
JOHN SWEENEY, JOHN MADDERN AND THOMAS COSTELLO. FOLLOWING
RELATIVES PRESENT AT SERVICE: MESDAMES FRED PARKER AND KATE
MCHALE, MESSRS. FRANK O'BRIAN AND PATRICK FLEMMING OF CHICAGO;
MISSES ETTA JENNINGS AND KATE GRIMES, MRS. JAMES MURPHY OF ST.
LOUIS, MR. AND MRS. THOS. CASEY, WRIGHTSVILLE, MRSSRS; AND
MESDAMES THOMAS SHERIDAN AND JOHN HOULAN, MESSRS: JAMES
MCDONOUGH, MICHAEL MCERNEY AND MICHAEL JENNINGS OF CARROLLTON,
MRS. BERNARY GREELING, MESSRS, JAMES AND PATRICK BURNS, E. ST.
LOUIS, JAMES GORMAN AND FAMILY OF HOUSTON, TEXAS. BORN AT
LOUISBURG, COUNTY MAYO, IRELAND, FEB. 25, 1840. CAME TO AMERICA
WHEN 14 YEARS OLD AND SETTLED IN OHIO. FROM THERE TO JERSEY
COUNTY IN 1860. MARRIED CATHERINE BURNS, APR. 19, 1864 AT ALTON,
IL BY REV. CHAS RAPHAEL. IN 1866 TO GREENE CO., BACK TO JERSEY.
DATED 1953: MICHAEL MURPHY, A NATIVE OF
JERSEY COUNTY, DIED THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 26, IN A SPRINGFIELD
HOSPITAL WHERE HE HAD BEEN A SURGICAL PATIENT FOR THE PAST FEW
WEEKS. MR. MURPHY WAS A SON OF THE LATE MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM
MURPHY AND WAS BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY. HE OBSERVED HIS
SEVENTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY ON DEC. 29, 195?. MR.
MURPHY ENGAGED IN FARMING IN JERSEY COUNTY FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND
ABOUT TWENTY YEARS AGO MOVED TO SPRINGFIELD WHERE HE CONTINUED
HIS FARMING OPERATIONS FOR A FEW YEARS. IN RECENT YEARS HE HAD
BEEN EMPLOYED IN SPRINGFIELD. HE WAS THE SURVIVING MEMBER OF HIS
FAMILY. THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE OCCURRED SEVERAL MONTHS AGO.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 28, AT THE
CHURCH OF THE LITTLE FLOWER IN SPRINGFIELD AND INTERMENT WAS IN
THAT CITY. AMONG RELATIVES AND FRIENDS ATTENDING THE FINAL RITES
WERE HIS SISTER-IN-LAW, MRS. ANDREW MURPHY, MRS. THOMAS ALLEN,
MRS. GENE MURPHY, MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM MURPHY, MATT WALSH, JAMES
WAHLE, JR. AND MRS. ROY SEARS OF JERSEYVILLE, MRS. JACK DREW OF
CARROLLTON, MRS. WILLIAM HARMON OF KANE AND MRS. FRANK STITES OF
ALTON.
DATED 7/22/1980: FUNERAL SERVICES FOR RAYMOND W.
MURPHY, 78, OF ROUTE 2, JERSEYVILLE WERE HELD JUL 18 AT
THE GUBSER VUNERAL HOME WITH RAYMOND WORDEN OFFICIATING. BURIAL
WAS IN LAX CEMETERY. MURPHY WAS BORN FEB. 24, 1902 NEAR ENID,
OKLA., THE SON OF WILLIAM A. AND SARAH DUNHAM MURPHY. HE DIED AT
5:10 AM JUL 15 AT ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL IN ALTON. HE RETIRED 13
YEARS AGO FROM OWENS ILLINOIS WHERE HE WAS A MACHINE OPERATOR.
HE IS SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER, PATRICIA ANN MORGAN OF PALMYRA;
THREE SONS, JOHN W. (BILL) MURPHY OF JERSEYVILLE; ROBERT R.
MURPHY OF CARROLLTON AND RONALD L. MURPHY OF THE UNITED STATES
AIR FORCE IN GERMANY; FIVE GRANDCHILDREN AND A BROTHER TRUMAN
MURPHY OF CARROLLTON. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY TWO SISTERS
AND TWO BROTHERS. THE FAMILY DESIGNATED THE AMERICAN CANCER
SOCIETY AS A MEMORIAL.
DATED 5/11/1951: MRS. SARAH VIRGINIA MURPHY,
WIFE OF W.A. MURPHY, OF ENGLISH TOWNSHIP DIED SUN. AFTERNOON,
MAY 6, AT FIVE-TEN O'CLOCK AT THE HOME OF HER SON-IN-LAW AND
DAUGHTER, MR. AND MRS. CARL GROSS, ON SOUTH LAFAYETTE STREET.
THE DECEDENT WAS A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE HUGH AND MARTHA SEAGO
DUNHAM AND WAS BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY ON OCT. 23, 1881. HER AGE
AT THE TIME OF DEATH WAS SIXTY-NINE YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND
THIRTEEN DAYS. SURVIVING MRS. MURPHY IN ADDITION TO HER HUSBAND
ARE ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. CARL GROSS OF THIS CITY; TWO SONS,
RAYMOND MURPHY OF JERSEYVILLE AND TRUMAN MURPHY OF KANE, SIX
GRANDCHILDREN; ONE BROTHER, OTTO DUNHAM OF JERSEYVILLE, AND
THREE SISTERS, MRS. ELLEN LANE OF BLOOMFIELD, MO, MRS. EMMA
BURCH OF KANE AND MRS. SHRELDA DRISCOLL OF ALTON. FUNERAL
SERVICES WERE HELD AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME TUES. AFTERNOON
MAY 8 AT TWO THIRTY O'CLOCK. REV. W.L. SHOWERS OF GRANITE CITY
OFFICATED AT THE RITES AND INTERMENT WAS IN LAX CEMETERY.
