[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 56 (Wednesday, April 18, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E567]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  CONGRATULATING ANNE AND JACK MURPHY

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                          HON. JOHN GARAMENDI

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 18, 2012

  Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Speaker, I offer my warmest congratulations today 
to Anne and Jack Murphy on the occasion of their 70th Wedding 
Anniversary and Anne's 90th birthday. We join in celebration with their 
three children and their families including seven grandchildren and 
five great grandchildren, Anne's sister, Mary Jane, their nieces and 
nephews, cousins, and lifelong friends.
  Teresa Anne McSorley was born on March 23, 1922, at the McSorley 
Ranch in Chili Gulch, near Mokelumne Hill, in Calaveras County, 
California, and Raymond ``Jack'' Murphy was born on March 16, 1918, and 
raised at the Murphy family home on St. Charles Street in San Andreas, 
also in Calaveras County, California.
  The young couple first met at a dance at the Mokelumne Hill Town Hall 
in 1935 when they were 14 and 18. Jack graduated from Calaveras High 
School in 1935 and went on to earn a MBA Degree in Business from 
Stanford University in 1941. Anne, also a graduate of Calaveras High 
School, Class of 1939, went on to attend UC Berkeley for two years and 
Munson School of Business, and later worked for the manager of Rexall 
Drug Store in San Francisco. The couple dated for about three years, 
became engaged and were married on May 2, 1942, in San Andreas, before 
Jack became an ensign for the US Navy. Jack served in the Second World 
War in Alaska, then Europe and finally the Pacific Theater in 1945. 
Jack Murphy attained the rank of Lieutenant, Senior Grade was given 
command of the USSYMS 359, a mine sweeper.
  Anne and Jack Murphy have three children, Kathleen; Dennis; and 
Teresa; and raised them in California at homes they made in Park 
Merced, Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, and Corona Del Mar. Jack managed 
the Murphy Hain Company, while Anne devoted her time and talents to her 
family, her children's Catholic schools and her favorite charity, St. 
Anne's, until the couple retired to their current home in Roseville, 
Northern California.
  Anne and Jack Murphy teach us all that is key to a long life and 
happy marriage: love, friendship, mutual respect, faith, patience, 
humor, rounds of golf, card games, good books, soap operas, time in the 
yard, hometown memories, world travel, family vacations and trips to 
the ranch, a cocktail or two, and the value of time spent with family 
and friends.

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