BUFORD, Ga. – Dr. John G. Murray Jr. died June 1, 2009, in Buford, Ga. He was born July 17, 1925, in Greenville, S.C., to Dr. John G. Murray and Lila Graham Murray. Dr. Murray served in the U.S. Army in World War II and was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge. He graduated from Greenville High School, Greenville, S.C. He graduated from the University of Virginia Med-ical College, Charlottesville, Va., and interned at the Medical Hospital of Richmond, Va. He then joined his father in the General Practice of Medicine, Greenville, S.C. He also had practices in Blue Hill, West Virginia and Charleston, S.C. He is survived by his first wife, Dorothy Holley and their four sons, Gerry, Jim and wife, Kathie, Edmund of Blue Hill and Thomas and wife, Lucy, of Duluth, Ga.; and four grandchildren, Brendan, Sean, William and Holley Ann Murray; two sisters, Martha Gulian of New York and Lila Murray Fairey and husband, Dr. William Fairey, of Pawley’s Island, S.C. His second wife, Mary Lyall Wannamaker, predeceased him. There will be a funeral service Friday, June 5, in Greenville, S.C. It is respectfully requested that memorials be made in his honor to a church that he helped start, Saint Francis by the Sea Episcopal Church, P.O. Box 76, Blue Hill, ME 04614.
DR. JOHN GIRARDEAU MURRAY JR.
