MUNCIE - Former Muncie resident Virginia Ann Murphy,
68, Round Rock, Texas, died on May 24, 2002, at Hospice Austin's Christopher
House after a long illness (Lewy Bodies Disease).She was born July 6, 1933, in Muncie, the daughter of J. Robert and Mildred I. Phillips Armstrong. She graduated from Selma High School in 1951 and from Parkview Memorial Hospital Nursing School in Fort Wayne in 1954.
Jinny was employed at Putnam County Hospital in Greencastle, then at Children's Orthopedic Hospital in Seattle, Wash., for 4 years. She then worked at The Children's Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., for a year.
She devoted her life to her family and God and will be greatly missed.
Jinny was a charter member of the White Bear Lake United Methodist Church in White Bear Lake, Minn., for 25 years and a member of St. Philip's United Methodist Church
Surviving are her husband of 47 years, Richard (Dick) Murphy; her two daughters, Karen Marie Stauffer (husband: Kenneth), Mountain Home, Idaho, and Mary Ellen Murphy, Austin, Texas; her son, R. Brian Murphy (wife: Linda), Austin, Texas; three grandchildren, Amanda, Stephanie and Jessica Stauffer, all of Mountain Home, Idaho; a sister, Margaret Sue Shumaker (husband: Donald), Fort Wayne, Ind.; a brother, Philip C. Armstrong, Fort Wayne, Ind.; six nephews; and a niece.
A celebration of Jinny's life will be held in The Meeks Mortuary Chapel at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 5, 2002. Burial will follow in Mount Tabor Cemetery.
Friends may call at the mortuary from 12:30 p.m. until time of service on Wednesday.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Hospice Austin, 4107 Spicewood Springs Road, Suite 100, Austin, Texas 78759.