Corsicana Daily Sun
November 18, 2002.

Martha Lee Haralson Murphy

Martha Lee Haralson Murphy, 84, of Hubbard passed away Saturday, 
Nov. 16, 2002 at a Waco hospital.

Visitation will be at Mrs. Murphy's home in Hubbard at 200 NW 
Sixth Street where she will lie in state from 2 p.m. today until 
noon Wednesday.

Services will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at the First United Methodist 
Church of Hubbard with the Rev. Jerry Irvin officiating. Interment 
will follow at Fairview Cemetery in Hubbard.

Pallbearers will be Billy Jarvis, Arthur Deiterman, Gerald Freeman, 
Carl McGee, Wayne Kilgo, Tom Anderson, Doyle Holman and Thomas Walker. 
Honorary pallbearers will be Bill Weatherby, Conrad Newton Jr., Paul 
J. Allen, James Anderson and Don Prue.

Mrs. Murphy, a member of a pioneer Hubbard family, was born June 25, 
1918 in Hubbard to Robert Coats Haralson and Lois Barret Haralson. 
She was a lifelong resident of Hubbard and was a graduate of Hubbard 
High School and also attended Baylor University. Along with her late 
husband, G.R. Murphy Jr., she was the owner/operator for many years 
of Jarvis-Paris-Murphy Company (JPM), an agriculture business, whose 
main office was in Hubbard until 1976. JPM currently has offices in 
Waco, Dawson and Mart. At the time of her death, Mrs. Murphy was 
serving as vice-president of JPM. She was a charter member and board 
member of the Hubbard Community Affairs Association, which oversees 
the restoration and operation of the historic Hubbard High School. 
She was a longtime active member of the First United Methodist Church 
of Hubbard and served as its chairman for the past 25 years. Her 
family was instrumental in the building of the Haralson Family Life 
Center at the First United Methodist Church in Hubbard. Mrs. Murphy 
was well-known for her traditional Christmas party at her home in 
Hubbard that she had given with her husband, and later, with her 
son for 49 years. She was a former member of the Hubbard Garden 
Club and loved Hubbard. She was very generous and a true lady. Mrs. 
Murphy was honored as Hubbard's Citizen of the Year in 2002 by the 
Hubbard Chamber of Commerce at its annual banquet.

She was preceded in death by her husband, G.R. Murphy Jr., in 1986.

Mrs. Murphy is survived by son, Gary and Chantal Murphy of Hubbard; 
three granddaughters, Heather and paul Morris of Hubbard, Holly and 
R.T. Brown of Bryan, and Christina and Jeff Hancock of Hubbard; and 
four great-grandsons, Gage, Hunter, Seth and Logan Morris, all of Hubbard.

The family requests memorials be made to the First United Methodist 
Church of Hubbard or to the Hubbard Community Affairs Association.

Arrangements by Wade Funeral Home, Hubbard.