Patricia Lee Murphy, 75, of Palm Coast, FL and formerly of Dunkirk and Chesapeake Beach, MD passed away August 18, 2011 at the Stuart F. Meyer Hospice House if Palm Beach, FL. Patricia was born January 29, 1936 in Washington, D.C. to Louis A. and Evelyn (Hardesty) Merryman.

She was raised in Washington and graduated from Anacostia High School, class of 1954. She began her career in the insurance industry as an underwriter with INA (Insurance Company of North America) and spent the majority of her career in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area with Smith-Field Insurance Agency. She moved to Palm Coast, Florida in 1999, and continued working in commercial insurance with Brown & Brown Insurance in Daytona Beach, FL until the time of her death. She was a member of the National Association of Insurance Women for many years, and an active member of Epiphany Episcopal Church in Forestville, MD and All Saints Church in Sunderland, MD.

Patricia is survived by a son Timothy Murphy of Upper Marlboro, MD and a daughter Kathleen Register and her husband Michael of Hamilton Square, NJ. She is also survived by granddaughters Shelby and Mikayla Register, a sister Shirley Burch (late husband Alton Joseph Burch) of Palm Coast, FL and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends.

Expressions of sympathy in Patricia's name may be made to the American Cancer Society, Calvert County Unit, P.O. Box 752, Prince Frederick, MD 20678 or to Stuart F. Meyer Hospice House, 150 Memorial Medical Parkway, Palm Coast, FL 32164.

Arrangements provided by Rausch Funeral Home.

Visitation
August 23, 2011
2:00-4:00 & 7:00-9:00 P.M.
Location: Rausch Funeral Home - Owings, MD

Funeral Service
August 24, 2011
11:00 A.M.
Location: All Saints Episcopal Church