Obituary of Grace Anna Murphy

MURPHY?Grace Anna nee Hanley of Woodbury Hgts., NJ on Nov. 2, 2003. Aged 70 years. Grace attended Gloucester City High School where she was involved in field hockey as well as numerous clubs. She graduated in 1951 and worked for the Delaware River Port Authority as well as New York Shipyard. Grace married Joseph in 1952 and was an excellent homemaker & mother. Grace went back into the workforce as her children grew older and finished her career with 18 years at the Cooper Hospital, Camden where she was the assistant construction manager for the new Kellerman Pavillion. She traveled extensively with Joe after they retired and enjoyed her children and grandchildren along with her family and friends. She is the beloved wife of Joe, devoted mother of Susan Nolan & her husband John of Gloucester City and Joe, Jr. of Brooklawn, loving grandmother of Kelly & Patrick Nolan of Gloucester City and SSGT Terrance Murphy of NC & Sean Murphy of VA & great grandmother of 1, dear brother of Robert Penrose & his wife Rhoda of Brooklawn and the late James Penrose, Howard Hanley, Robert Hanley and Katherine Graff, devoted daughter of the late Emma & John Hanley, dear Aunt of Patricia Graff of Brooklawn, Kathy & her husband Raymond Gesualdo of DE and Joyce Conway & her husband Michael of Gloucester City, Mass of Resurrection Wed 10 AM in St. Margaret RC Church, 3rd Ave. & Beech St., Woodbury Hgts., NJ where friends may call after 9 AM. Interment Manahath Cem., Glassboro, NJ. Tributes & memories may be shared by clicking the "sign guestbook" icon. Arrangements by McGuinness Funeral Home, Woodbury, ?The Lifetime Tribute Funeral Home?®