Devoted wife and mother Alice Murphy, 77, a Staten Island resident for sixty-six years and a retired secretary, died yesterday of ovarian cancer at the Community Hospital in Toms River, New Jersey.
Born Alice Rose Konecny in Concord, Mrs. Murphy lived with her husband, Thomas, in Richmond, for thirty-eight years and in Whiting, New Jersey for the past eleven years.
She graduated from Curtis High School in 1952 and went on to attend Pace University in Manhattan. Mrs. Murphy worked as a secretary at Narrows Ford on Staten Island for many years.
Mrs. Murphy loved to sew and to dance. She was a bowler for nearly fifteen years. She was also an "avid reader, six or seven books a week," according to her husband.
She was greatly devoted to her three children.
Mrs. Murphy was the first female senior member of the College of Regents in 1971 and later received an award in Chicago that named her as the first College of Regents graduate on Staten Island.
She was a former parishioner of Immaculate Conception R.C. Church in Stapleton and later attended St. Patrick's R.C. Church in Richmond.
She is survived by her husband of fifty-six years, Thomas; a son Thomas; two daughters, Patricia Ann Casaccio and Jo-Ann Gastiaburo; a brother, Albert; two sisters, Ann Samulson and Loretta Stacey; ten grandchildren; and fourteen great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be ehld on Friday from the John Vincent Scalia Home for Funerals, Eltingville, with a Mass at 10:00 a.m. in St. Patrick's Church.
Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery, West Brighton.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on September 14, 2011.
Born Alice Rose Konecny in Concord, Mrs. Murphy lived with her husband, Thomas, in Richmond, for thirty-eight years and in Whiting, New Jersey for the past eleven years.
She graduated from Curtis High School in 1952 and went on to attend Pace University in Manhattan. Mrs. Murphy worked as a secretary at Narrows Ford on Staten Island for many years.
Mrs. Murphy loved to sew and to dance. She was a bowler for nearly fifteen years. She was also an "avid reader, six or seven books a week," according to her husband.
She was greatly devoted to her three children.
Mrs. Murphy was the first female senior member of the College of Regents in 1971 and later received an award in Chicago that named her as the first College of Regents graduate on Staten Island.
She was a former parishioner of Immaculate Conception R.C. Church in Stapleton and later attended St. Patrick's R.C. Church in Richmond.
She is survived by her husband of fifty-six years, Thomas; a son Thomas; two daughters, Patricia Ann Casaccio and Jo-Ann Gastiaburo; a brother, Albert; two sisters, Ann Samulson and Loretta Stacey; ten grandchildren; and fourteen great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be ehld on Friday from the John Vincent Scalia Home for Funerals, Eltingville, with a Mass at 10:00 a.m. in St. Patrick's Church.
Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery, West Brighton.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on September 14, 2011.
Devoted wife and mother Alice Murphy, 77, a Staten Island resident for sixty-six years and a retired secretary, died yesterday of ovarian cancer at the Community Hospital in Toms River, New Jersey.
Born Alice Rose Konecny in Concord, Mrs. Murphy lived with her husband, Thomas, in Richmond, for thirty-eight years and in Whiting, New Jersey for the past eleven years.
She graduated from Curtis High School in 1952 and went on to attend Pace University in Manhattan. Mrs. Murphy worked as a secretary at Narrows Ford on Staten Island for many years.
Mrs. Murphy loved to sew and to dance. She was a bowler for nearly fifteen years. She was also an "avid reader, six or seven books a week," according to her husband.
She was greatly devoted to her three children.
Mrs. Murphy was the first female senior member of the College of Regents in 1971 and later received an award in Chicago that named her as the first College of Regents graduate on Staten Island.
She was a former parishioner of Immaculate Conception R.C. Church in Stapleton and later attended St. Patrick's R.C. Church in Richmond.
She is survived by her husband of fifty-six years, Thomas; a son Thomas; two daughters, Patricia Ann Casaccio and Jo-Ann Gastiaburo; a brother, Albert; two sisters, Ann Samulson and Loretta Stacey; ten grandchildren; and fourteen great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be ehld on Friday from the John Vincent Scalia Home for Funerals, Eltingville, with a Mass at 10:00 a.m. in St. Patrick's Church.
Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery, West Brighton.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on September 14, 2011.
Born Alice Rose Konecny in Concord, Mrs. Murphy lived with her husband, Thomas, in Richmond, for thirty-eight years and in Whiting, New Jersey for the past eleven years.
She graduated from Curtis High School in 1952 and went on to attend Pace University in Manhattan. Mrs. Murphy worked as a secretary at Narrows Ford on Staten Island for many years.
Mrs. Murphy loved to sew and to dance. She was a bowler for nearly fifteen years. She was also an "avid reader, six or seven books a week," according to her husband.
She was greatly devoted to her three children.
Mrs. Murphy was the first female senior member of the College of Regents in 1971 and later received an award in Chicago that named her as the first College of Regents graduate on Staten Island.
She was a former parishioner of Immaculate Conception R.C. Church in Stapleton and later attended St. Patrick's R.C. Church in Richmond.
She is survived by her husband of fifty-six years, Thomas; a son Thomas; two daughters, Patricia Ann Casaccio and Jo-Ann Gastiaburo; a brother, Albert; two sisters, Ann Samulson and Loretta Stacey; ten grandchildren; and fourteen great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be ehld on Friday from the John Vincent Scalia Home for Funerals, Eltingville, with a Mass at 10:00 a.m. in St. Patrick's Church.
Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery, West Brighton.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on September 14, 2011.
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