She had attended church earlier, and returning to the sanatorium complained of not feeling well. She retired to her room and death was discovered when attendants went to summon her to the telephone.
For 30 years Miss Murray was a tireless worker in the case work of the tuberculosis campaign in Marquette County. She visited schools in all parts of the county, conducted clinics and educational programs. She followed up every report and was particularly helpful in out-patient work. Whenever a Marquette County patient was admitted to the sanatorium, Miss Murray checked every exposure possibility and had a family history of the case ready.
Dr. James R. Acocks, superintendent of Morgan heights, this morning said, "We have lost the most effective single factor in our county in the fight against tuberculosis. For Miss Murray, the work of field nurse was not a job, but a pattern of living. She devoted all her energizes to it. No task was too small, or too big for her attention. Her case histories were a model of meticulous detail. Yet it was her work with the school children that she had her greatest value."
"Miss Murray had the confidence of every child, the cooperation of every school official. The r4esult was a steady series of years of fruitful results in the campaign to eradicate tuberculosis."
"Marquette County schools have one of the state's finest records in this phase of their work and I know every school official will agree with me that the dominating reason for such a status was the devoted and dedicated attention given by Miss Murray."
Ogden E, Johnson, Ishpeming, for 13 years president of the Marquette County Tuberculosis Association and still a member of its executive committee, said "Miss Murray was a conscientious person who made the association program work. The goal of our group is to conduct the educational campaign and to raise funds for rehabilitation and to contribute to research effort. If any part of our program ever lagged, Miss Murray took it as a personal responsibility and redoubled her already arduous efforts. Surely it can be said of her she gave her life to the cause.
Miss Murray was born Aug. 26, 1902 in Stiles, Wis., moving when a small girl with her parents to the Oconto Falls, from where she was graduated from high school. After being graduated from St. Mary's school of Nursing, Green Bay, she went into public health work in Lansing and later in West Bend, Wis.
Five years ago, the Marquette District Nurses Association and the Morgan heights personnel cooperated in sponsoring a 25th anniversary testimonial dinner for hr at which time she drew tribute from state and national organizations, the schools, and professional people throughout the Peninsula for her dedicated work.
She was a member of St. Peter's Cathedral, the Alter Society of St. Peter's, the Daughter's of Isabella, the Michigan Tuberculosis Association, the Marquette-Alger County Nurses Association and the Morgan Heights Auxiliary.
She is survived by five brothers, Bart, Oconto Falls, Wis.; Thomas, Spooner, Wis. And John, Joseph and James, Milwaukee, a sister, Mrs. Agnes M. Felton, Woodlawn, Tenn., and several nieces and nephews.
The body was taken to Tonella's Funeral Home. At 7:30 this evening members of the Daughters of Isabella will hold services in the funeral home and at 8:15 the parish Rosary will be recited.
The body will be removed to the Soulek Funeral Home, Oconto Falls, Wis. tomorrow morning. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday morning in St. Anthony's Church, Oconto Falls and burial will take place in the Stiles (Wis.) Cemetery.