Crisp County GaArchives Obituaries.....MURPHY, OLIVER WEBSTER (SPEC) September 24, 1956 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR. wylie http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 November 23, 2009, 5:36 pm CORDELE DISPATCH TUESDAY SEPT. 25,1956 O.W.MURPHY DIES BESIDE BOGGED TRUCK OLIVER WEBSTER MURPHY 43,DIED SUDDENLY YESTERDAY,AFTERNOON ON HIS SALES ROUTE ,BETWEEN AMERICUS AND PLAINS,APPARENTLY FROM A HEART ATTACK. AUTHORITIES, SAID TWO MEN FOUND MR. MURPHY WHICH WAS BOGGED DOWN IN SOFT EARTH BESIDE THE ROAD,SHORTLY BEFORE 5 P.M.THEY WENT TO GET HELP FOR FREEING THE TRUCK ,BUT WHEN THEY RETUNED THEY FOUND MR. MURPHY DEAD. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT DEKLE FUNERAL CHAPPEL WEDNESDAY MORNING AT 11 WITH REV. CLIFTON FITE OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE AT SUNNYSIDE CEMETARY. DECEASED WAS A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF CORDELE. HE WAS BORN JAN.13,1913, SON OF SAMUEL OLIVER AND LYDIA LORENNA COX MURPHY. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, AND OF THE BENOVELENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELK. SURVIVORS ARE HIS WIFE MRS. LEE SHEPPARD MURPHY RT.1 A DAUGHTER REBECCA MURPHY, TWO SONS MICHAEL AND JAMES MURPHY ALL OF CORDELE.HIS PARENTS MR. AND MRS. S. O. MURPHY OF BYROMVILLE, 3 SISTERS MRS. ROBERT WILDER, AND MISS LUCY MURPHY, BOTH OF BYROMVILLE. AND MRS. H. J. INGRAM OF MOULTRIE, AND 2 BROTHERS S.A. MURPHY OF BYROMVILLE AND MARVIN MURPHY OF ROCHELLE. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/obits/m/murphy12756ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb