Frances Schlegel Murray
2008
Frances Schlegel Murray, 91, a homemaker and church member, died after a heart attack Dec. 29 at her home in Bethesda.
Mrs. Murray was a member of St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Church in Bethesda for the past 57 years and was a founding member of its sodality. She volunteered at Suburban Hospital and for the Red Cross.
A native Washingtonian, she graduated from  Roosevelt High School and attended Dunbarton College. During the 1930s and 1940s, she worked at the U.S. departments of Agriculture and Treasury.
She enjoyed gardening, baking and traveling, including taking trips to Germany, where relatives lived.
Her husband of 48 years, Charles A. Murray, died in 1990.
Survivors include a son, the Rev. Michael Murray of Bethesda, and a sister, Lillian Hisey of Bethesda.
-- Patricia Sullivan