Michael Northrup Murphy passed away unexpectedly of heart failure at his Olympia home on June 11, 2014. Mike was born on March 5, 1942, in Elma, Wash., to Anne and C. Tab Murphy. Mike was a talented high school athlete and played football at Grays Harbor College and attended Central Washington University. He was an avid outdoorsman, enjoying rodeo riding, hunting, dirt bike racing and flying. He later took up golf and became an avid fly fisherman.
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