Personal Life
Mrs. Murphy traveled extensively throughout the United States, North Africa, the Caribbean, China and Europe, and wrote numerous articles on her travels. In particular she traveled to many communist countries, including the former Soviet Union (Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan), East Germany, Cuba, and China in 1985. She was proud of defying U.S. government policies that discouraged and prohibited travel to these nations.
She was married for 54 years to the late Judge William H. Murphy Sr. and is survived by her sister, Mary Ann Franklin, son, noted Maryland trial attorney William H. Murphy, Jr., daughter, Madeline Murphy Rabb, son, Arthur W. Murphy, son, Houston W. Murphy and daughter, former Director of the Washington D.C. office of the ACLU, Laura W. Murphy. She died of a heart attack while at home at the age of 84. At the time of her death she was also survived by ten grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
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