Loye Dorothy Smith Murphy was born on May 22, 1913 in Grapeland, Houston County, Texas to James Monroe Smith and Mary Jane Powell.
She had four siblings: Ernest Earl Smith, Eria Bell Smith Bobbitt, Bessie Gladys Smith Wood and Zerita Aldena Smith Benthall.
Her paternal grandparents were Thomas Wright Smith and Julia Ann Cantrell and her maternal grandparents were Robert Thomas Powell and Margaret S. Baker.
She married Jack Woodrow Murphy on December 5, 1938. They were blessed with three children: Mary Jacquelyn "Jackie" Murphy Donner Alexander, Richard Woodrow Murphy and Charles Vernon Murphy.
She died on Sunday, June 8, 1986 in Houston, Harris County, Texas from heart failure. She was 73 years old.
For several years, up to the time of her death, her heart doctor was the internationlly recognized and respected physician and heart surgeon, Michael DeBakey.
She had four siblings: Ernest Earl Smith, Eria Bell Smith Bobbitt, Bessie Gladys Smith Wood and Zerita Aldena Smith Benthall.
Her paternal grandparents were Thomas Wright Smith and Julia Ann Cantrell and her maternal grandparents were Robert Thomas Powell and Margaret S. Baker.
She married Jack Woodrow Murphy on December 5, 1938. They were blessed with three children: Mary Jacquelyn "Jackie" Murphy Donner Alexander, Richard Woodrow Murphy and Charles Vernon Murphy.
She died on Sunday, June 8, 1986 in Houston, Harris County, Texas from heart failure. She was 73 years old.
For several years, up to the time of her death, her heart doctor was the internationlly recognized and respected physician and heart surgeon, Michael DeBakey.
Loye Dorothy Smith Murphy was born on May 22, 1913 in Grapeland, Houston County, Texas to James Monroe Smith and Mary Jane Powell.
She had four siblings: Ernest Earl Smith, Eria Bell Smith Bobbitt, Bessie Gladys Smith Wood and Zerita Aldena Smith Benthall.
Her paternal grandparents were Thomas Wright Smith and Julia Ann Cantrell and her maternal grandparents were Robert Thomas Powell and Margaret S. Baker.
She married Jack Woodrow Murphy on December 5, 1938. They were blessed with three children: Mary Jacquelyn "Jackie" Murphy Donner Alexander, Richard Woodrow Murphy and Charles Vernon Murphy.
She died on Sunday, June 8, 1986 in Houston, Harris County, Texas from heart failure. She was 73 years old.
For several years, up to the time of her death, her heart doctor was the internationlly recognized and respected physician and heart surgeon, Michael DeBakey.
She had four siblings: Ernest Earl Smith, Eria Bell Smith Bobbitt, Bessie Gladys Smith Wood and Zerita Aldena Smith Benthall.
Her paternal grandparents were Thomas Wright Smith and Julia Ann Cantrell and her maternal grandparents were Robert Thomas Powell and Margaret S. Baker.
She married Jack Woodrow Murphy on December 5, 1938. They were blessed with three children: Mary Jacquelyn "Jackie" Murphy Donner Alexander, Richard Woodrow Murphy and Charles Vernon Murphy.
She died on Sunday, June 8, 1986 in Houston, Harris County, Texas from heart failure. She was 73 years old.
For several years, up to the time of her death, her heart doctor was the internationlly recognized and respected physician and heart surgeon, Michael DeBakey.
