Personal Life
During the summer of 1957, while working in Blackpool, Murray met Bernie Burgess, a member of a family song-and-dance troupe. Shortly afterwards she left Northern Ireland to marry him and live with him in England. Burgess became her manager and the couple became a double act during the 1960s. After her first marriage failed in 1974, she was granted a divorce in 1976. She married an old friend, Ray Lamar, in 1993, and lived in Torquay, Devon. She had two children from her marriage to Burgess.
Although her days as a major star ended in the 1960s, Murray continued performing until close to the end of her life. She died of liver cancer, aged 61, in December 1996 in Torquay, after a long struggle with alcoholism.
Spending her last couple of years in Aspreys Nursing Home she often delighted her carers with a song, and was visited by her special friend Max Bygraves.
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