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 Bunnie Murphy
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[DEC. 11, 2006]
CHESTNUT -- Bunnie L. Murphy, 80, of
Chestnut died Friday, Dec. 8, 2006, at 6:55 p.m. at Vonderlieth
Living Center in Mount Pulaski.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski. |
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His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Mount
Pulaski Christian Church, with Jeremy Thomason and
Roger Murphy officiating.
Burial, with military rites, will be in Laenna
Cemetery.
Mr. Murphy retired from Kaiser Agricultural
Chemical after 25 years as a fertilizer plant
manager.
He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
He was born Jan. 18, 1926, in Decatur to Bunn H.
and Irma Weatherly Murphy. He married Betty J. Young
at Gays on Sept. 12, 1947.
He is survived by his wife, of Chestnut; three
sons, Roger L. (and Rexanna) Murphy of Oklahoma
City, Okla., Alan R. (and Maryan) Murphy of Chestnut
and Gregory L. Murphy (and Martha Rehder) of
Chestnut; 11 grandchildren; and 15
great-grandchildren.
One brother, Gerald Murphy, and one sister,
Bonita Watts, preceded him in death.
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He was a member of Mount Pulaski Christian Church
and Chestnut-Beason America Legion Post 848.
He was president of the Beason-Chestnut Water
District, assistant fire chief for the Chestnut Fire
Department and worked for Aetna Township. He served
on the Chestnut school board, Laenna Cemetery board
and Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital board.
He graduated from Sullivan High School in 1944.
Memorials may be made to Chestnut Rescue Squad or
Mount Pulaski Christian Church.
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