Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  HERBERT MURPHY

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GRAVESIDE SERVICES FOR HERBERT MURPHY 

OCNS-October 14, 1999-Graveside services will be held tomorrow (Friday, 
October 15, 1999) at 2:00 p.m. in the Pawhuska Cemetery for Herbert Murphy, 
89, who died October 13 (the day after his birthday) at the family home in 
Bartlesville. 

Mr. Murphy was born at his family's ranch near Tahlequah, Oklahoma, 
October 12, 1910, the youngest of seven children of Thomas Murphy, a 
businessman and rancher and Amanda Terrell Murphy, a teacher and homemaker. 

The family was listed on the Dawes Commission rolls of the Cherokee Indian 
Tribe. 

Upon the death of his father in 1920, Herbert moved with his mother to 
Pawhuska, Oklahoma, where he later met Dora Emmaline (Dollie) Capps, who 
he married October 10, 1937.

Mr. Murphy was an experienced horseman, having been a cowboy in his youth. 
He was a stonemason on a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project in 
Pawhuska in the 1930's, building what is now the Osage Indian Museum. 
During World War II he worked for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 
Railroad and, in later years, for the Osage County road maintenance crew 
from which he retired. 

Mr. Murphy was a proud and gentle man who seldom expressed emotions or 
raised his voice in anger. He had a soft heart for children and animals, 
frequently rocking his own children to sleep when they were infants. He 
loved fishing and gardening. As a young man he was the pitcher in a local 
baseball league and later taught his son and older daughter to play 
baseball, taking them to sporting events when they were growing up in 
Bartlesville. Survivors in addition to his wife, Dollie, of the home in 
Bartlesville, include a son, Herbert Eugene Murphy and his wife, Gladys of 
Kansas City; a daughter, Emma Darlene Capps Murphy of Tulsa; a daughter 
Anna Christine Roye of Tulsa; a daughter, Sandra Kay Young and her husband, 
Dr. Jim Young of Bartlesville, Oklahoma; nine grandchildren and six great-
grandchildren. 

He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers and two sisters. 

Long time family friend, Reverend Raymond Redcorn, will lead the graveside 
services, under the direction of Johnson Funeral Directors.