Anna Laura Halliday
1885 - 1978 (93 years)Set As Default Person
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Name Anna Laura Halliday Birth 18 May 1885 North Bend,Hamilton,Ohio,United States Gender Female Occupation Sculpter [1] Death 8 Jul 1978 Winter Park,Orange,Florida,United States Headstones Submit Headstone Photo Person ID I9339 Rgstrong Family genes. | Descendants of Ebenezer Halladay, 1675-1779 Last Modified 12 Mar 2014
Father George Vernon Moody Halliday, b. 2 Feb 1843, Newark,Licking,Ohio,United States d. 4 May 1906, North Bend,Hamilton,Ohio,United States (Age 63 years) Relationship natural Mother Lee Anna Bartholow, b. 27 Dec 1854, Glasgow,Howard,Missouri,United States d. 2 Feb 1927, Cincinnati,Hamilton,Ohio,United States (Age 72 years) Relationship natural Marriage 2 Feb 1876 Saint Louis,St. Louis (city),Missouri,United States Family ID F3418 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Frank Louis DeBeukelaer, b. 22 Jun 1885, Troy,Rensselaer,New York,United States d. 9 Jan 1972, Winter Park,Orange,Florida,United States (Age 86 years) Marriage 8 Aug 1914 Cincinnati,Hamilton,Ohio,United States Children 1. Emilie Marchand DeBeukelaer, b. 1915 d. 1975 (Age 60 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 2. George Halliday DeBeukelaer, b. 1917 d. 1922 (Age 5 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] + 3. Frances Jeanne "Fran" DeBeukelaer, b. 5 Feb 1922, Chicago,Cook,Illinois,United States d. 14 Apr 2004, Santa Rosa,Sonoma,California,United States (Age 82 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F3419 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Dec 2006
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Sources - [S995] California. Santa Rosa., The Press Demorat, 12 Mar 2014, "Obituary of Frances Murray," Sunday, April 18, 2004, p. B2, col. 1-3. (Reliability: 3).
Frances J. Murray, a past executive director of the Council on Aging of Sonoma County, died Wednesday. She was 82.
Murray worked at the nonprofit organization for 15 years and was its director for 10 years before retiring in 1990.
She had been a Santa Rosa resident since 1962.
She was born in Chicago on Feb. 5, 1922, the second of two daughters of chemist Frank L. DeBeukelaer and sculptor Laura Halliday DeBeukelaer.
She grew up in the Beverly Hills section of southwest Chicago and graduated from Morgan Park High School. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorodo.
After working as an interior decorator in Chicago and with the U.S. Army Special Services in Germany, Murray relocated to Portland, Ore. There she worked as a case worker with the Multnomah County Welfare Commission where she met William Murray, a native of The Dalles, Ore.
They were married in The Dalles in 1956. The Murrays raised two children, Bob Murray and Jennifer Mariani.
The couple lived in San Rafael before moving to Santa Rosa.
Murray resumed her professional career in the mid-1970s, going to work at the Council on Aging where she became executive director in 1980.
Challenged to find new sources of revenue to support the council's services, Murray instituted regular bingo fund-raisers which replaced a large percentage of the council's lost government funding.
Noting that the council had been forced to move its offices 11 times in 24 years, Murray enlisted Sonoma County business leaders' support for construction of a permanent home for the council.
"She was just a wonderful human being," her son said. "She made a difference."
Murry retired from the council at age 68, after seeing a Bennett Valley Road building project to completion.
In her retirement, Murray and her husband studied genealogy and wrote their family histories.
The research took them across the country, looking up old records and visiting cemeteries in the Northeast and Midwest.
Their working files will be passed to next-generation researchers within the family, and copies of their data and completed histories will be deposited with local historic societies and faamily history libraries.
Murry was a member of the Sonoma County Genealogy Society, the North Coast Mac Users Group and the Santa Rosa Democratic Club.
She died at home after being diagnosed with cancer, her daughter said.
Murray is survived by her daughter and son, both of Santa Rosa. Her husband died March 8, 2003.
A memorial service is set for 2 p.m. May 4 at Knox Presbyterian Church in Santa Rosa.
Contributions may be made to the Council on Aging, 730 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa 95404, or Heartland Hospice, 2455 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa 95404.
-- Paul Payne
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undated and unknown newspaper clipping of anothr obituary:
MURRAY, Frances J. "Fran" - Died April 14, 2004, in Santa Rosa at age 82. A resident of Santa Rosa since 1962, she worked for 15 years for the Council on Aging of Sonoma County, serving as the Council's executive director from 1980 until her retirement in 1990. In retirement, she and her husband studied genealogy and researched and wrote their respective family histories, traveling together on genealogical field trips throughout the United States. She was a member of the Sonoma County Genealogical Society, the North Coast Mac Users Group, and the Santa Rosa Democratic Club. The daughter of Frank and Laura DeBeukelaer, she was born February 5, 1922 in Chicago, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1944 from the University of Colorado. She is survived by her daughter jennifer and son Bob, both of Santa Rosa. Her husband William C. Murray predeceased her March 8, 2003.
A memorial service will be held at Knox Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, May 4, at 2:00 p.m. Contributions in her memory may be made to the Council on Aging of Sonoma County, the Sonoma County Genealogical Society, the North Coast Mac Users Group, Heartland Hospice or a charity of choice. Arrangements under the direction of EGGEN & LANCE MORTUARY.
the image is of two versions of the obituary the second one is undated.image provided by Bob Murry