Lawrence Murphy 1924-2010

My good and beloved friend Larry Murphy passed away due to complications from pneumonia last night March 3rd 2010. Larry Murphy was born in Illinois in 1924 and raised since the age of 12 in Walla Walla, Washington grew up and moved to Seattle. In 1957 Larry moved and became a faithful and dedicated Librarian for the New York Public Library. He shared 46 happy and loving years with his life partner Bob Goldstein, who himself passed away in December of 2007. After Bob's passing, Larry was deeply depressed from Bob's passing and saught out the services of the Friend Visitors program of SAGE, Services and Advocay for Gay Elders for which I volunteer for and was paired up with Larry on Nov 4th 2008. For the past year and a half I have had the pleasure, honor and privilege of knowing this truly amazing man. He has taught me so much about life, history, relationships, love and ultimately death. I hope that I brought as much comfort and joy to his life as he brought to me. He was a good, wise, intelligent, funny, sensitive and loving man. He will be sorely missed by all his friends and family.

May G-d bless Larry in the next life as much as he did in the previous.

A memorial service is scheduled at Monday March 8th, 4 pm at the
Church of the Incarnation
209 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016-3814
(212) 689-6350

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[ohaiguisez]

:'( He seemed like a sweet old man. It must have been a joy to be around him :) He actually seemed abit happy in the video though. You're lucky to have been matched up with him in that program. God bless him.