Murray, Grace 1892-1982

MURRAY, COPLEY, KENNEDY, MARTIN, ZIEGENMEYER

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Date: 4/5/2013 at 08:33:59

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register; April 29, 1982

GRACE MURRAY SERVICES SET

Grace Murray, 89, of the Mayflower Home died Tuesday afternoon at Grinnell General Hospital.

Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Grinnell United Methodist Church, with the Rev. James P. Russell officiating. Organist will be Kathleen Heffner. Burial will be at Hazelwood Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Grinnell General Hospital or to the United Methodist Church. Friends may call at the Smith Funeral Home until 9 p.m. Thursday.

The daughter of George and Eliza Copley Murray, she was born on Aug. 24, 1892, near Grinnell. She was a graduate of Grinnell High School and graduated from Grinnell College in 1916.

Following her education, she taught school at Clarksville, Atlantic and Boone, returning to Grinnell in the 1940s.

Miss Murray was a substitute mathematics teacher in the Grinnell school system and worked at Stewart Library and the former Bartling and Nuckells Jewelry Store. She moved to the Mayflower Home in 1975. She was a member of the Grinnell United Methodist Church.

She is survived by two sisters, Elsie F. Kennedy and Mabel Martin, both of Grinnell. She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Vera Ziegenmeyer.