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April 6, 2010
Services
A Memorial Mass will be celebrated Friday, April 9th, 2010 at 10:30 AM at the Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Arrangements are under the direction of the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Those planning an expression of sympathy in Leo’s name are asked to consider The Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and school, Wayne.
Leo T. Murphy age 77 of Riverdale formerly of Packanack Lake, Wayne passed to his mansion in heaven on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at the Saint Josephs Hospital in Wayne. His passing was graciously peaceful while he received the loving care of his wife Patricia who was at his bedside.
He was born in Paterson, NJ and had resided in Paterson and Totowa Boro later moving to Packanack Lake area of Wayne where he lived for forty-one years before moving to Riverdale in 2001.
Leo spent his formative years in Paterson having received his grammar school education at Our Lady of Lourdes Parochial School in Paterson and then his high School education at Saint John’s Cathedral High School graduating with the Class of 1950. He then went to William Paterson College and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education and later a Masters Degree in Education.
His first job after completing college was as a sixth grade teacher at Parsippany Middle School; his second position was at the Lincoln Park School system where he became Principal of the Pine Brook Elementary School. He then returned to Parsippany as a Principal at the Northvale School and then the Littleton School in Parsippany finally retiring in 1991 after twenty five years of employment for the Parsippany/Troy Hills Board of Education.
He was a member of the Parsippany/Troy Hills Administrators Association and the Morris County Administrators Association.
He served in the Navy during the Korean conflict.
Pat and Leo Murphy met each other at Saint John’s High School and were high school sweethearts . They married in 1955 at Saint Paul’s RC Church in Clifton and would celebrate 55 years of marriage this August.
If you had the pleasure of knowing Leo you know that he had a wonderful gift of personality. He would greet you with a smile, a hardy hello and a gracious spirit. He carried these qualities in his personal and professional life. He loved children and as a teacher he excelled and gifted many a child with his sincere and dedicated teaching skills. You could say he was just a natural at his work and enjoyed his career path immensely.
He was a parishioner of the Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church in Wayne and he maintained a wonderful grasp on his Catholic faith. We can be assured that he met his Savior on April 6th and was received with warmth for all eternity.
Surviving are his loving wife Patricia (nee Lawler) Murphy; one daughter Kathleen Grundy of Englewood, Florida; one son John M. Murphy and his wife Justine of Cherry Hill, NJ; six grandchildren Jenny and Sarah Grundy, Katie Maring and Thomas Grundy, Olivia and Dylan Murphy of Cherry Hill, NJ; eight great grandchildren Thomas, Kyleigh, Elias, Lezelle, Insana, Shane Howard Grundy and Dean Thomas Grundy and Gracie Maring; and many nieces and nephews.
A great and overwhelming sadness struck the Murphy family on two occasions and as Leo and Pat said “it is only because of our faith that we have survived”. Their son Thomas P. Murphy died suddenly and unexplainably on July 7, 1983 and then a similar fate struck their son in law Dean Grundy On December 9, 1983 that same year.
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A Memorial Mass will be celebrated Friday, April 9th, 2010 at 10:30 AM at the Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Arrangements are under the direction of the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Those planning an expression of sympathy in Leo’s name are asked to consider The Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and school, Wayne.
April 6, 2010
Services
A Memorial Mass will be celebrated Friday, April 9th, 2010 at 10:30 AM at the Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Arrangements are under the direction of the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Those planning an expression of sympathy in Leo’s name are asked to consider The Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and school, Wayne.
Leo T. Murphy age 77 of Riverdale formerly of Packanack Lake, Wayne passed to his mansion in heaven on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at the Saint Josephs Hospital in Wayne. His passing was graciously peaceful while he received the loving care of his wife Patricia who was at his bedside.
He was born in Paterson, NJ and had resided in Paterson and Totowa Boro later moving to Packanack Lake area of Wayne where he lived for forty-one years before moving to Riverdale in 2001.
Leo spent his formative years in Paterson having received his grammar school education at Our Lady of Lourdes Parochial School in Paterson and then his high School education at Saint John’s Cathedral High School graduating with the Class of 1950. He then went to William Paterson College and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education and later a Masters Degree in Education.
His first job after completing college was as a sixth grade teacher at Parsippany Middle School; his second position was at the Lincoln Park School system where he became Principal of the Pine Brook Elementary School. He then returned to Parsippany as a Principal at the Northvale School and then the Littleton School in Parsippany finally retiring in 1991 after twenty five years of employment for the Parsippany/Troy Hills Board of Education.
He was a member of the Parsippany/Troy Hills Administrators Association and the Morris County Administrators Association.
He served in the Navy during the Korean conflict.
Pat and Leo Murphy met each other at Saint John’s High School and were high school sweethearts . They married in 1955 at Saint Paul’s RC Church in Clifton and would celebrate 55 years of marriage this August.
If you had the pleasure of knowing Leo you know that he had a wonderful gift of personality. He would greet you with a smile, a hardy hello and a gracious spirit. He carried these qualities in his personal and professional life. He loved children and as a teacher he excelled and gifted many a child with his sincere and dedicated teaching skills. You could say he was just a natural at his work and enjoyed his career path immensely.
He was a parishioner of the Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church in Wayne and he maintained a wonderful grasp on his Catholic faith. We can be assured that he met his Savior on April 6th and was received with warmth for all eternity.
Surviving are his loving wife Patricia (nee Lawler) Murphy; one daughter Kathleen Grundy of Englewood, Florida; one son John M. Murphy and his wife Justine of Cherry Hill, NJ; six grandchildren Jenny and Sarah Grundy, Katie Maring and Thomas Grundy, Olivia and Dylan Murphy of Cherry Hill, NJ; eight great grandchildren Thomas, Kyleigh, Elias, Lezelle, Insana, Shane Howard Grundy and Dean Thomas Grundy and Gracie Maring; and many nieces and nephews.
A great and overwhelming sadness struck the Murphy family on two occasions and as Leo and Pat said “it is only because of our faith that we have survived”. Their son Thomas P. Murphy died suddenly and unexplainably on July 7, 1983 and then a similar fate struck their son in law Dean Grundy On December 9, 1983 that same year.
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