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Michael Murphy
juin 12, 1943 — février 8, 2025
Michael (Miceal) Joseph Murphy
June 12,1943 – February 8, 2025
Michael loved music (especially Jackson Browne), dogs, riding his bike, riding the bus, flying, public speaking, listening to public speakers (but only if they stayed under his 10 minute limit and the shorter the better), leading meetings, well led meetings, the New Testament, the St. Thomas Moore Chapel community, Ireland, Canada, Marxism, books, reading, libraries, writing, pickle ball, rhubarb, Bushmills closely followed by Jamesons, inexpensive wine, notebooks, anything thrift shopped, the Canadian health care system, Tommy Douglas, The Saskatoon Community Clinic and Waskesiu. He was a devoted friend and a loving husband and father, charming and mischievous, complex and surprising, and a good man who did his best to keep up with feminism as it evolved throughout his lifetime and in his home.
Michael (Miceal) Joseph Murphy died loved and in peace in his bed at the Geriatric Re-enablement Unit in Saskatoon. He had been admitted from hospital for therapies in order to return home with his abilities optimized. A combination of rapidly progressing cancer and medical complications derailed our plan.
Michael was born in Limerick, Ireland to Michael and Hannah (O’Toole). He was the second of three children, Mahon the eldest and Mary the youngest. He attended the Jesuit-run Crescent College Primary School in Limerick. Michael’s father was a civil servant and his mother a homemaker. The family moved to Cork where Michael attended Sullivan’s Quay School, run by the Christian Brothers. He was a fine student, once winning a day off for his entire school by winning an academic competition. Michael earned a Diploma in Public Administration from University College Dublin in 1963. He worked as an Executive Officer with the Department of Lands, Forestry Division for 3 years, then as a Work Study Officer for Jacobs Ltd and for Cadbury Ltd.
Michael and lifelong friend Brian Brennan moved to Vancouver with the benefit of a $250 loan from the Government of Canada to cover the cost of airfare for young, educated men to come to Canada. It was an adventure. Although he was employed in several private sector positions, initially he found that job opportunities were not what he had hoped for. In 1969 Michael and his new wife Kelly left for Africa with CUSO. Michael worked as a volunteer Adult Education teacher in Zambia for 3 years, then was employed by CUSO as a Field Officer in Zambia then Malawi until 1975. He worked as a CUSO Regional Director for East Central and Southern Africa for the next two years. Michael’s son Shane was born in Zambia.
Michael returned to Canada to work as a Prairies Team Member in the Saskatoon office of OXFAM Canada from 1977 to 1992. During this time Michael met and married Angie Thurmeier and together they had their son Martin. He completed a B.A. in 1981 and then an M.A. in Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan in 1990.
In 1993 Michael became the Saskatchewan Animator for the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, a job he cherished and held until his retirement in 2009. He led Solidarity Tours to Brazil, Peru and El Salvador and as a CUPE activist he led a trade union tour to Nicaragua. He also worked as a Sessional Lecturer for the University of Saskatchewan, happily teaching the Labour and Globalization Unit of the Labour Studies Program 3 times with very high evaluations from his students. During these years Michael became widowed and he and Martin were supported emotionally and practically by good friends, in particular a group of women friends who provided childcare that allowed Michael to continue working in his job when travel was required.
Michael’s dear friend Lynn Hainsworth sowed the seed that resulted in his marriage to Lorraine Marquis in 1998. Michael and Lorraine were married by progressive Catholic nuns in the Marcelin church, followed that day by a Justice of the Peace in the Marcelin Community Hall, and later by the then Fr. Murray Chatlain in St. Michael’s church. Lorraine’s daughter Paige became one of Michael’s own and soon another daughter was born, Maeve.
Michael counted himself fortunate to have spent most of his working life helping groups and communities to achieve greater security, justice and peace. He saw this work as a life’s work, not confined to the bounds of paid employment and so Michael was also a volunteer and an activist. He was a member of the Saskatoon Solidarity Committee for 10 years, Board Member of the Saskatoon Public Library from 2005 to 2011, Chair of the Saskatoon Peace Coalition for 20 years, Chair then Executive Member of the City Park Community Association for 6 years and Member of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon from 2012 to 2015. At the time of his death, Michael was a member of the Saskatoon Community Clinic Foundation Board since 2016 and a member of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East Saskatoon Chapter. He was a proud member and mentor of two writing groups, himself mentored by his friend Tom Morris whom he met at Simon Fraser University and later again in Zambia before both returned to Canada.
Michael is lovingly remembered by his wife Lorraine and their daughter Maeve (Ben); sons Martin and Shane; stepdaughter Paige (Joby); grandchildren Nolan, Cash and Caleb; brother Mahon (Isobel) and sister Mary (John); in-laws Len (Sherri) and Carol (Ron); a niece and nephews and their families; friends (but really brother) Laurie, Lois and Stephen; Shane’s mother Kelly; former daughter-in-law Lisa; and many other dear friends old and new. He was predeceased by Martin’s mother Angie; parents Michael and Hannah; Lorraine’s parents George and Lillian Marquis and by friends Brian Brennan and Brian Krempien.
Our thanks to GRU physician Dr. Naidu and Nurse Coordinator Lisa for their extended efforts in meeting Michael’s care needs, to Fr. Gerard and Fr. Paquin for their kindness and friendship and to brave friends who have creatively supported and sustained us in person and from afar.
A wake and celebration of Michael’s life is planned for the spring of this year.
Condolences may be left to the private attention of the family at murphycondolences@gmail.com
For those wishing to make a memorial donation, please consider:
The Saskatoon Community Clinic Foundation Inc.
Via
Canadahelps.org or by phone at 306-652-0300 or mail to Saskatoon Community Clinic Foundation, 455 2nd Ave. North, Saskatoon, SK S7K 2C2
Or
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
action.msf.ca

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