LEE "RANDY" MURPHEY
Feb. 24, 1952-Dec. 16, 2017
Mr. Lee Elbert "Randy" Murphey, 65, resident of the Rhodes Church area near Mount Olive, died Saturday night, Dec. 16, 2017, in a nursing facility in Roanoke, Va.
The family will receive friends at Tyndall Funeral Home from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 20, and at other times, at the home of Carroll and Diana Grady.
Graveside services will be Thursday, Dec. 21, at 3 p.m. at Wayne Memorial Park. Pastor Carroll Overman will be presiding.
Randy had served in both the United States Army and United States Navy.
Most of his civilian employment was in swine production on the Carroll Grady farm, with a shorter tenure of service with a truss manufacturing plant in Dunn.
He is survived by two daughters, Amy Lynn Murphey of Winthrop, Maine, and Jessica Murphey Ortiz of Gastonia; two sisters and a brother-in-law, Diana M. and Carroll Grady of Mount Olive and Etta Beth M. Randolph of Sacramento, Calif.; a sister-in-law, Sandra Murphey of Goldsboro; grandchildren, Jeffery Laprise, Christen Laprise, Logan Leprise and Hunter Ercoli; very special nieces, Laura Read, Sherry Holmes and Patti Lane; other nieces, Denise Mitchell, Jenny Murphey, Brandy Pace and Renee Murphey; and nephews, Jeremy Grady, Jason and Jamie Randolph; along with all their families.
The family gives special recognition to Stephanie Reid, ICU nurse at Wayne Memorial Hospital, and Casey, special assistant at Kissito/Bryan Center in Roanoke, for exemplary care and concern shown to Mr. Murphey.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Jewell Victor Murphey and Edith Bowes Murphey; a brother, Timothy Lee Murphey; and a nephew, Tony Murphey.
A Tyndall service.
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Published in Obituaries on December 19, 2017 8:05 AM