Joyce M. Murray 1934 - 1998

MURRAY, TROJAHN, LORENZEN

Posted By: Connie J Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/6/2014 at 22:34:03

7 December 1998

ONAWA, Iowa — Joyce M. Murray, 64, of Onawa died Saturday, Dec. 5, 1998, at Burgess Memorial Hospital in Onawa.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at First Christian Church in Onawa, with the Rev. Donald R. Ludwick officiating. Burial will be in Onawa Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today at Pearson Funeral Home in Onawa.

Mrs. Murray was born March 11, 1934, in Moneta, Iowa, the daughter of Edward and Elva (Trojahn) Lorenzen. She graduated from Everly (Iowa) High School in 1951, and attended Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa for two years.

She married Marvin Wayne Murray on Nov. 23, 1952, in Jackson, Minn. The couple moved to Onawa in 1962. She was employed as a secretary with Monona County Abstract Office, Robert Underhill and Richard Mock Attorneys at Law and Fouts Chiropractic, all in Onawa and as a clerk with Jubiliee Foods in Onawa. She retired in June 1998. He died May 26, 1990, in Onawa.

She was a member of First Christian Church.

Survivors include five daughters, Jill and her husband, Mary Hausman, Valarie Murray and her fiancé, Randy Ping, and Peggy and her husband, Jeff Rolph, all of Onawa, Jody and her husband, John Hardison, of Missouri Valley, Iowa, and Marjorie and her husband, Doug Jaminet, of Sioux City; four sons and their wives, Jaimie and Rhonda, Edward and Amy and Steven and Teresa, all of Onawa, and Jeffrey and Lynn of Sergeant Bluff; 19 grandchildren; a great-granddaughter; a brother and his wife, Dale and Karen Lorenzen of Naperville, Ill.; two brothers-in-law, Cliff and William Murray and his wife, Claire; and two sisters-in-law, Marjorie and her husband, Perry Cedarholm, and Verleen Murray.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a son Marvin Wayne Jr. in infancy.