OBIT: Bernard J. MURPHY, 1986, of interest in Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by Richard Boyer Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ MURPHY Bernard J. Murphy, 74, of St. Petersburg Beach, FL, died Monday, November 3, 1986, at Bay Pines VA Medical Center. He was born in Grantstown, WV. He relocated in FL in 1940 from Meyersdale. He is survived by his wife Louise, a daughter, Sarah Bolden, of St. Mary, Pa.; a brother, William Murphy, of Akron, Ohio; five sisters, Mary Swindell, of Barberton, Ohio; Eleanor Raymond, of Pontiac, Mich.; Regina Kirchner, of Meyersdale; Marguerite Pugh of Jenners; Rosann Walker, of Confluence, also five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. He was a retired auto-body shop owner and was a WW II veteran of the U.S. Eighth Air Force; was a member of the Eighth Air Force Historical Society, 379th Bomb Group Assn.; locally, he was a member of M.O.P.H. John F. Kennedy Post Holiday Isles Chapter No. 13 DAV; a member of St. John's Catholic Church, St. Petersburg Beach. Beach Memorial Chapel Funeral Home, Corey Ave., St. Petersburg Beach, FL, was in charge of funeral arrangements. The Republic, November 13, 1986 [M2578]