Submitted by: Dan Rich

Joseph Crylis Murphy

Dec. 29, 1895 – July 24, 1974

South Bend Tribune 7/24/1974

Mishawaka - Joseph C. Murphy, 78, of 1546 Lincoln Way East, died this morning in St. Joseph Hospital, where he had been taken a few hours by police in the city ambulance after suffering an apparent heart attack in his home. He had been in failing health for two years. Born in Henderson Ky., on Dec. 29, 1895, he came to Mishawaka from Evansville in 1929.

He retired from the Dodge Manufacturing Corp., Division of Reliance Electric, after 35 years of employment. He married Eleanor Clary in Kentucky in 1912, and she died in 1945. He married Stella Lyvers in Mishawaka on July 3. 1965. She survives.

Also surviving are two sons, Gerald of Osceola and Randall of Mishawaka; a daughter Mrs. Norman Coyner of Oseola; a stepson, Martin Lyvers of Franklin, four step-daughters, Mrs. Norman Lind of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. John Seago of Niles, Mrs Louis Toth of Mishawaka and Mrs. Daniel Rich of Arizona; three sisters, Mrs. Joseph Burger of California, Mrs Gertrude Wayne of South Bend and Mrs. Marie Rummage of Stanley, Ky.; and ten grandchildren. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Bubb Funeral Chapel. He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church parish.

South Bend Tribune 7/25/1974

Funeral services for Joseph C. Murphy, 78, of 1546 Lincoln Way East, who died Wednesday in St. Joseph Hospital, will be held at 9 a.m. Friday in St. Joseph Catholic Church. Msgr, Curt A, Suelzer, pastor, will officiate, and burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Bubb Funeral Chapel, where the rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. today.

Editor: The maiden name of his second wife Stella Mae Lyvers, was Stella Mae Clary.