Dorothy Murphy
September 24, 2009

Dorothy passed away on Thursday evening, September 24, 2009 at the Garden View Care Center in Shenandoah. Memorials may be directed to the Shenandoah Senior Center.

Dorothy Melvina Murphy the daughter of Pleas and Margaret (Gibson) Jackson, was born near Northboro, Iowa on April 6, 1920 and entered into rest on September 24, 2009 at Shenandoah, Iowa.
Dorothy graduated from Northboro High School in 1937 and then attended Northwest Missouri State College. She married Wilbur Murphy in January of 1939. The two of them farmed in Southwest Iowa and Northwest Missouri for 46 years until Wilbur passed away in 1985. After her husband's death she moved to Shenandoah where she lived the rest of her life.
Her life was centered around her work as a homemaker and raising and caring for her children. Dorothy was an accomplished seamstress and won several awards for design and her work. She also drove a school bus for the South Page Community Schools for several years before retiring. After retiring from the farm and moving to Shenandoah she spent many years volunteering at Garden View Care Center. She was active and enjoyed many times at the Shenandoah Senior Citizens Center.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Pleas and Margaret Jackson; husband Wilbur; and three brothers, Wayne, Paul and Lloyd Jackson. She is survived by a sister Mildred Leek of Clarinda, Iowa; a daughter Catherine Pollock of Malvern, Iowa; three sons, Ronald Murphy of Kalama, Washington, Jim Murphy of Canon City, Colorado, and Gerold Murphy of Montara, California; fourteen grandchildren, thirteen great grandchildren and one great- great grandchild; along with other relatives and many friends.

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