Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries.....Thomas MURPHY, 1943
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"Evening Times" Cumberland, Maryland, Mon 18 Oct 1943: 
"Morgantown, W. Va., Oct 16-Funeral rites for Thomas Murphy, 40, local contractor, well known 
throughout the State, were held this morning at the St. Teresa Catholic Church, with Rev. 
Peter Flynn in charge. Burial was in Lawnwood Cemetery. Mr. Murphy died suddenly of a heart 
attack Friday afternoon at his home at Twin Acres on the Star City road. He had had two light 
heart attacks in the past few years, but his most recent illness had been a sore throat. Mr. 
Murphy had been in apparently good health since then, having attended the baseball World 
Series earlier in the week. Mr. Murphy was head of the Murphy Construction Company launched 
in 1927, which has become prominent in road construction work in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West 
Virgina, and Kentucky as well as in this State. For the past two years, Mr. Murphy and his 
firm have been active most in the construction of airfields for the U. S. Army. This firm is 
engaged in such work in the South at present and at Elkins, where the airport is being 
modernized under C.A.A. supervision. The Murphy Company also has been prominent in the 
construction and development of the Municipal Airport here. The present hard-surface runways 
at the Morgantown field were built under his direction, and the methods and mixture used 
there have been copied extensively by engineers designing such runways as are at the National 
Airport in Washington, D.C. He was one of the incorporaters of the West Virginia Aviation 
Foundation and a director in that organization's activities. A graduate of the University, Mr. 
Murphy was born in April, 1903, to the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Murphy at Midland, Md. His 
father, formerly Maryland State mining inspector, later operated a coal mine for many years 
at Gorman, Preston county, W.Va. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Clotilde Sigwart Murphy; three 
children, Barbara, 14, Thomas, Jr., 12, and Francis, 9; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Condon of 
New York; and Mrs. Leo Droppleman and Mrs. Joseph Coddington, of Morgantown."


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