Priscilla Anne Murphy formerly of Nampa died June 28, 2020 at her home near Sandpoint, Idaho after struggling with Alzheimer’s for many years. Priscilla, age 89, was born February 4, 1931 at the home of her maternal grandparents in Fair Oaks, California to Albert and Virginia Nicolet. She spent most of her youth in California, including San Francisco where she would race up and down the hills on her roller skates or scooter in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. At least once she, on her skates, took her older brother in his wheelchair on a harrowing ride down the hills. Apparently, it wasn’t well received by her parents. Mom, always the tomboy, was the only girl allowed to play baseball with the boys at school.
Around 1944 the Nicolet family moved to Glendale, Arizona, where Priscilla graduated from Glendale Union High School in 1948. She attended one semester of college before she married Roland Murphy in 1949. Shortly thereafter they moved back to Roland’s hometown of Spokane, Washington. They moved 21 times in the first 12 years of their marriage as Roland worked primarily in ranching jobs. They finally settled in southwestern Idaho. During most of her early marriage Priscilla was a homemaker.
Beginning in 1960 she attended the College of Idaho where she received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education. She first taught 3rd grade in Wilder and then spent the rest of her career as a 1st grade teacher at Lakeview and Parkview Elementary Schools in Nampa. She retired in 1993.
Priscilla enjoyed camping, rock hounding, fossil hunting, volunteering on archaeological excavations, and being with her family. After the death of her husband in 1979 she became an EMT volunteer for the Meridian Fire Dept. Her faith became a central part of her life. She then put her teaching expertise to use through her Catholic affiliation by giving teaching workshops to educators in remote and poverty-stricken parts of Columbia, Mexico, and Peru. Learning a foreign language was difficult for her, but eventually she learned Spanish. Often the teachers she instructed had only high school educations. She would save money all year to pay for her trips, books, and teaching supplies. On one trip she traveled by boat up a jungle river to reach a school she had heard about. Upon her return, a priest friend of hers told her that this area was so dangerous that he would never travel there. On another occasion she got permission from the Zapatista Army to provide workshops within their territory in southern Mexico. She
said it was quite an experience going in front of a council of masked individuals to get permission to teach. She returned several years and upon departing was told that she was welcome back anytime.
She sometimes encountered adversity, she caught Dengue fever while on one of her trips, and once she displaced her artificial hip in remote southern Mexico and it took almost two weeks to get her back to
the U.S. for surgery.
Priscilla was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, and her brother Norman Nicolet. She is survived by her children Tim (Donna), Mike (Emi), and Kathy (Rick) Emmert as well as six grandsons, one granddaughter and one great-great grandson.
Around 1944 the Nicolet family moved to Glendale, Arizona, where Priscilla graduated from Glendale Union High School in 1948. She attended one semester of college before she married Roland Murphy in 1949. Shortly thereafter they moved back to Roland’s hometown of Spokane, Washington. They moved 21 times in the first 12 years of their marriage as Roland worked primarily in ranching jobs. They finally settled in southwestern Idaho. During most of her early marriage Priscilla was a homemaker.
Beginning in 1960 she attended the College of Idaho where she received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education. She first taught 3rd grade in Wilder and then spent the rest of her career as a 1st grade teacher at Lakeview and Parkview Elementary Schools in Nampa. She retired in 1993.
Priscilla enjoyed camping, rock hounding, fossil hunting, volunteering on archaeological excavations, and being with her family. After the death of her husband in 1979 she became an EMT volunteer for the Meridian Fire Dept. Her faith became a central part of her life. She then put her teaching expertise to use through her Catholic affiliation by giving teaching workshops to educators in remote and poverty-stricken parts of Columbia, Mexico, and Peru. Learning a foreign language was difficult for her, but eventually she learned Spanish. Often the teachers she instructed had only high school educations. She would save money all year to pay for her trips, books, and teaching supplies. On one trip she traveled by boat up a jungle river to reach a school she had heard about. Upon her return, a priest friend of hers told her that this area was so dangerous that he would never travel there. On another occasion she got permission from the Zapatista Army to provide workshops within their territory in southern Mexico. She
said it was quite an experience going in front of a council of masked individuals to get permission to teach. She returned several years and upon departing was told that she was welcome back anytime.
She sometimes encountered adversity, she caught Dengue fever while on one of her trips, and once she displaced her artificial hip in remote southern Mexico and it took almost two weeks to get her back to
the U.S. for surgery.
Priscilla was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, and her brother Norman Nicolet. She is survived by her children Tim (Donna), Mike (Emi), and Kathy (Rick) Emmert as well as six grandsons, one granddaughter and one great-great grandson.
Priscilla Anne Murphy formerly of Nampa died June 28, 2020 at her home near Sandpoint, Idaho after struggling with Alzheimer’s for many years. Priscilla, age 89, was born February 4, 1931 at the home of her maternal grandparents in Fair Oaks, California to Albert and Virginia Nicolet. She spent most of her youth in California, including San Francisco where she would race up and down the hills on her roller skates or scooter in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. At least once she, on her skates, took her older brother in his wheelchair on a harrowing ride down the hills. Apparently, it wasn’t well received by her parents. Mom, always the tomboy, was the only girl allowed to play baseball with the boys at school.
Around 1944 the Nicolet family moved to Glendale, Arizona, where Priscilla graduated from Glendale Union High School in 1948. She attended one semester of college before she married Roland Murphy in 1949. Shortly thereafter they moved back to Roland’s hometown of Spokane, Washington. They moved 21 times in the first 12 years of their marriage as Roland worked primarily in ranching jobs. They finally settled in southwestern Idaho. During most of her early marriage Priscilla was a homemaker.
Beginning in 1960 she attended the College of Idaho where she received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education. She first taught 3rd grade in Wilder and then spent the rest of her career as a 1st grade teacher at Lakeview and Parkview Elementary Schools in Nampa. She retired in 1993.
Priscilla enjoyed camping, rock hounding, fossil hunting, volunteering on archaeological excavations, and being with her family. After the death of her husband in 1979 she became an EMT volunteer for the Meridian Fire Dept. Her faith became a central part of her life. She then put her teaching expertise to use through her Catholic affiliation by giving teaching workshops to educators in remote and poverty-stricken parts of Columbia, Mexico, and Peru. Learning a foreign language was difficult for her, but eventually she learned Spanish. Often the teachers she instructed had only high school educations. She would save money all year to pay for her trips, books, and teaching supplies. On one trip she traveled by boat up a jungle river to reach a school she had heard about. Upon her return, a priest friend of hers told her that this area was so dangerous that he would never travel there. On another occasion she got permission from the Zapatista Army to provide workshops within their territory in southern Mexico. She
said it was quite an experience going in front of a council of masked individuals to get permission to teach. She returned several years and upon departing was told that she was welcome back anytime.
She sometimes encountered adversity, she caught Dengue fever while on one of her trips, and once she displaced her artificial hip in remote southern Mexico and it took almost two weeks to get her back to
the U.S. for surgery.
Priscilla was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, and her brother Norman Nicolet. She is survived by her children Tim (Donna), Mike (Emi), and Kathy (Rick) Emmert as well as six grandsons, one granddaughter and one great-great grandson.
Around 1944 the Nicolet family moved to Glendale, Arizona, where Priscilla graduated from Glendale Union High School in 1948. She attended one semester of college before she married Roland Murphy in 1949. Shortly thereafter they moved back to Roland’s hometown of Spokane, Washington. They moved 21 times in the first 12 years of their marriage as Roland worked primarily in ranching jobs. They finally settled in southwestern Idaho. During most of her early marriage Priscilla was a homemaker.
Beginning in 1960 she attended the College of Idaho where she received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education. She first taught 3rd grade in Wilder and then spent the rest of her career as a 1st grade teacher at Lakeview and Parkview Elementary Schools in Nampa. She retired in 1993.
Priscilla enjoyed camping, rock hounding, fossil hunting, volunteering on archaeological excavations, and being with her family. After the death of her husband in 1979 she became an EMT volunteer for the Meridian Fire Dept. Her faith became a central part of her life. She then put her teaching expertise to use through her Catholic affiliation by giving teaching workshops to educators in remote and poverty-stricken parts of Columbia, Mexico, and Peru. Learning a foreign language was difficult for her, but eventually she learned Spanish. Often the teachers she instructed had only high school educations. She would save money all year to pay for her trips, books, and teaching supplies. On one trip she traveled by boat up a jungle river to reach a school she had heard about. Upon her return, a priest friend of hers told her that this area was so dangerous that he would never travel there. On another occasion she got permission from the Zapatista Army to provide workshops within their territory in southern Mexico. She
said it was quite an experience going in front of a council of masked individuals to get permission to teach. She returned several years and upon departing was told that she was welcome back anytime.
She sometimes encountered adversity, she caught Dengue fever while on one of her trips, and once she displaced her artificial hip in remote southern Mexico and it took almost two weeks to get her back to
the U.S. for surgery.
Priscilla was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, and her brother Norman Nicolet. She is survived by her children Tim (Donna), Mike (Emi), and Kathy (Rick) Emmert as well as six grandsons, one granddaughter and one great-great grandson.
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