MISS MINNIE MURPHY, ATHY

Leinster Leader 24 June 1944

Miss Minnie Murphy. Obituary

Miss Minnie Murphy who died in Dublin last week at an advanced age, was sister of the Misses Gypsy, Annie and Zillah Murphy, Emily Square, Athy. Having qualified in England as a nurse, she nursed the troops in France in the Great War from 1914 to 1918. On her return to Ireland she continued in the nursing profession and during the flu epidemic following the war she did heroic work in Athy, ministering to the sick, night and day. In 1921 she was stricken with paralysis, from which she never recovered. She was a devout Catholic, and her charity brought relief to many needy families. Her death is regretted over a wide area. She was interred in Kill-o’-the Grange, Dublin.