ARTHUR MURPHY

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Funeral for Arthur W. "Bill" Murphy of Sikeston will be held at 11 a.m. today at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston, Mo. Lawrence Murphy will officiate. Burial will be in IOOF Cemetery near Charleston.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 9:30 a.m. until the service time.

Murphy, 93, died Thursday, May 17, 2001, at Clearview Nursing Center.

He was born Nov. 19,1907, in the Rush Ridge community of Mississippi County, Mo., son of Baxter and Elsie St. Clair Murphy. He and Beulah Marie Brown were married Feb. 6, 1936. She died Nov. 22, 1986.

Murphy lived in Mississippi County most of his life. He was a retired mechanic and member of the United Methodist Church of Sikeston.

Survivors include a stepson, Carlvin Greenway of Southaven, Miss.; three brothers, Roy Murphy of Seattle, Wash., Cecil and Rex Murphy of Sun Lake, Ariz.; five sisters, Helen Ure of Wichita, Kan., Thelma Litchford and Essie Mullins of Wyatt, Mo., Mildred Kraus of Carlisle, Pa., Ann Munzyk of Buffalo, N.Y.; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by four brothers and two sisters.