KIOWA-Celebration of Life Memorial service for Mitchell Murphy, 18, will be Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. at the Barber County Fairgrounds in Hardtner, Kansas. Burial will follow in the Riverview Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Arralynn Murphy Education Fund established with the Peoples Bank, and given to the funeral home.
William Mitchell Murphy, son of Jennifer Anderson Wolf and William Matthew Murphy (Matt), was born on October 22, 1994 in Manhattan, Kansas. He passed away on May 13, 2013 near Kiowa, Kansas. He attended Atchinson County Community Elementary School in Effingham, Kansas until first grade and then later attended school at South Barber in Kiowa, Kansas. Mitchell participated in football, basketball, 4-H, and FFA. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, listening to music, farming, and hanging out with friends and family.
Mitchell is survived by his daughter, Arralynn Murphy and her mother, Jenelle Tillotson; his parents, Jennifer and Terry Wolf and Matt and Tammy Murphy; six sisters, Brooke and Clarissa Murphy and Lacee, Amber, Kayla, and Shanea Wolf; brother, Jarrett Roy; grandparents, Beverly Anderson, Norma Murphy, and Terry and Kathy Wolf along with many aunts, uncles, and friends.
Preceded in death by great-grandparents, Clarence and LaFerne Anderson; grandpa, William Walker Murphy (Jeff).