Joseph Patrick Murphy Sr. served in the United State
Navy from 1947 to 1950. After boot camp at the Great Lakes
Naval Center he was assigned as an Aviation Bosons mate
at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station on the banks
of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. While assigned there
he was a member of the Base Championship rowing team. He
was well suited for that having been on his high school
rowing team and a life guard at Sea Isle City, New
Jersey prior to entering the Navy.
Joseph was the son of James and Mary Anne Murray Murphy,
grandson of
Patrick and Mary Tinneny Murray of Derrykenny,
Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland,
great-grandson of
Mary Tinneny
of Goladuff and great-grandson of
Hugh Tinneny
of Goladuff.
