Murphy, Thomas V. 1931-2004

MURPHY, CAINE, GOEBEL

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 4/21/2008 at 18:41:06

CHEROKEE, Iowa -- Thomas V. Murphy, 73, of Cherokee died Thursday, July 15, 2004, at Careage Hills in Cherokee.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee, with the Revs. Armand Bertrand and John Cain officiating. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, with a Scripture service at 7 p.m. followed by a Knights of Columbus rosary, at Greenwood Funeral Home in Cherokee.

Mr. Murphy was born May 3, 1931, in Le Mars, Iowa, to John J. and Mary (Caine) Murphy. He attended country school in Le Mars and graduated from St. Joseph's High School, now Gehlen High School, in 1949. He served in the U.S. military during the Korean War. He farmed in the Le Mars area for several years before working with Nu-Way Drug Store in South Sioux City from 1956 to 1976. He then worked for Hy-Vee from 1976 to 1992, in the cosmetics, health and beauty division.

On Aug. 20, 1957, he married Mary Goebel in Granville, Iowa.

He was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He enjoyed his family and golfing.

Survivors include his wife; his daughters and their husbands, Julie and Collin Venenga of Sioux Falls, S.D., Michelle and Paul Paltz of Cherokee, Colleen and Pete Lehmann of Portland, Ore., and Sue Ann and Kerry Johnson of Larrabee, Iowa; his sons and their wives, Daniel and Dee Murphy of Cherokee, Thomas "T.J." and Bonnie Murphy of Blue Springs, Mo., and Timothy and Amy Murphy of Cherokee; eight grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; his brothers, John Murphy of Le Mars, Sylvester Murphy of Arizona, and Leo Murphy and his wife, Peg of Scottsdale, Ariz.; and his sisters, Maureen Soules of Worthington, Minn., Eileen Murphy of Marion, Iowa, Cheryl and her husband, Jack Bartz of Middaugh, Ill., Teresa Jeffrey of Wayne, Neb., Mary Fran and her husband, Maurice Redmond of South Sioux City.

He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Francis and Edward; and a sister, Rose Mary Van Wyhe.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal, July 16, 2004