MURPHY

The Montana Standard, Butte, 1935-08-24, p.2

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Standard one-paragraph paid death notice on the deaths page. Mrs. Ellen Murphy, aged 73, of the Fox hotel, died yesterday afternoon (Friday 23 August 1935) at a local hospital after a brief illness. Remains to be viewed in the Shamrock room of Duggan's Merrill mortuary until Sunday afternoon, then removed to the Colonial room. Funeral Monday morning at 9 o'clock, proceeding to St. Patrick's church for requiem high mass at 9:30. Interment in Holy Cross cemetery. First of four Ellen Murphy items on this paper across Aug 24 and Aug 27, 1935 (see crossrefs).

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Mrs. Ellen Murphy, aged 73, of the Fox hotel, died at a Butte hospital on Friday afternoon after a brief illness. Her remains lie in the Shamrock room of Duggan's Merrill mortuary until Sunday afternoon, then in the Colonial room, with the funeral Monday morning at 9 o'clock and requiem high mass at St. Patrick's church at 9:30, followed by interment in Holy Cross cemetery.

  • “The remains may be viewed in the Shamrock room of Duggan's Merrill mortuary until Sunday afternoon”

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    Born Ireland, 45 years in Butte by 1935 (came c. 1890). Two sons (James in LA, Dan in Butte), daughter Theresa in Seattle — children's names DON'T match person_ellen_murphy_wife_of_ dennis_1892's children (John b.1880, Michael b.1883). Two- records rule preserves them separate, but the Butte-Murphy Ellen-Ireland-arrival-1890 alignment is striking.

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# MURPHY [death notice] *The Montana Standard, Saturday, August 24, 1935, p. 2.* MURPHY — In this city yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Ellen Murphy, aged 73, of the Fox hotel, died at a local hospital after a brief illness. The remains may be viewed in the Shamrock room of Duggan's Merrill mortuary until Sunday afternoon, when they will be removed to the Colonial room, from where the funeral will take place Monday morning at 9 o'clock, proceeding to St. Patrick's church, where requiem high mass will be celebrated at 9:30. Interment in Holy Cross cemetery.

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