OBIT: Nora Mae (RICHARDS) MURPHY, 1975, Boswell, Somerset County, PA
  
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  MURPHY
  
  Mrs. Nora Mae Murphy, 63, of 312 Allegheny St. Boswell, died April
  25, 1975, at Somerset Community Hospital.  Born May 17, 1911, in
  Cambria County.  Daughter of William and Elizabeth Seymore
  Richards.  Preceded in death by parents and husband Raymond, who died
  in 1950.  Survived by twin sons, William M. and James R., both at
  home.  Also a brother James, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.  Member of
  St. Andrews Lutheran Church, Boswell, where she taught the Ladies
  Bible Class in Sunday School for many years.  Trinity Chapter No.
  138, Order of Eastern Star, Somerset Lodge.  Graduate of California
  State Teacher's College.  Was a teacher in Beaverdale and Wilmore
  Schools before coming to Boswell in 1951, where she taught English,
  French, and Latin in the North Star School District, Boswell Campus,
  when she retired in 1973.  Was a member of Pennsylvania State
  Educational Association and National Education Association.  Friends
  received from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday
  at Joseph H. Hoffman Funeral Home, 227 Allegheny St., Boswell. 
  Funeral service 11 a.m. Monday at St. Andrews Lutheran Church,
  Boswell.  Rev. George A. Clark officiating.  Interment, Prospect
  Cemetery, Portage.  Eastern Star Service at 2 p.m. Sunday at the
  funeral home.
  
  Somerset American, April 26, 1975
  
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