On Dec. 24, 2022, Linda Elaine (Longville) Murray passed away quietly with her family by her side, after a short battle with bladder cancer. She had just turned 80.
Linda was the first of six children born to Dale and Grace (Nelson) Longville. She was born in Baltimore, Md., on Nov. 20, 1942. During high school her parents moved to Omaha, where she graduated from Benson High School in 1960. That was where she met Brendan Murray.
Linda attended college at University of Omaha and worked as a telephone operator. She married Brendan on Feb. 3, 1962. She was a homemaker and the owner/operator of a cute antique store on main street of Elkhorn. They moved to Oakland in 2004. In February of this year, they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.
In 2020, they decided to join First Evangelical Lutheran Church. She loved church and the friends she made there. She enjoyed reading, music, going to movies, plays, operas, but mostly spending time with family and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Survivors include her husband, Brendan Murray; children: Brendan Patrick (Marcia) Murray, Jean (Marty) Peterson, Paul (Evangline) Murray; grandchildren: Tyler (Elyce)Peterson, Luryn (Kaleb) Andersen, Matthew Murray, Nicole (Ryan) Aupperle, Baird Murray-Wright, Callista Murray-Wright and Iris Murray-Wright; great-grandchildren, Barrett and Hagen Peterson, Emersen and Harlow Andersen; very special cousin, Richard (Libby) Gehrman; siblings: Susie (Oly) Cowles, Amy Longville, Owen Longville, Michael Longville, Janet Birch; sisters-in-law: Margaret (Dave) Wager, Mary (Larry) Edmonds, Susie (Steve) Lee; brothers-in-law, Jim (Carol) Murray, Robert (Sandra) Murray; many cousins, nieces and nephews.
Funeral service, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, 10:30 a.m., at First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oakland.
Visitation, Wednesday, 5 to 7 p.m., at the church
Internment at Oakland Cemetery
Memorials directed to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Arrangements by Pelan Funeral Services.
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