Hudson became a little less colorful on January 17, 2022 when Stuart Grant Murray, age 99, passed away at Laurel Lake after a brief illness. Murray moved to Hudson 14 years ago to be near family, and made an immediate splash at the retirement community when he showed up in the dining room wearing a bright Hawaiian aloha shirt. Murray's life-long love of Hawaii was celebrated every day inside Laurel Lake with a festive aloha shirt, and his devotion to aloha shirts is credited with loosening the dress code inside Laurel Lake.
Murray was born May 12, 1922 in Los Angeles, California. He was the eldest child of Admiral Stuart Shadrick Murray (USN) and Madeleine Young Murray, and as a member of a Naval family his childhood was on the go. His first steps were taken on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii and in his formative years he lived in Santa Barbara, California, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, New London, Connecticut and Coronado, California.
Murray joined the Naval Reserves at 17 years of age and went through flight training school before the age of 20. Murray graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree from the United States Naval Academy, Class of 1947, widely considered one of the most influential classes in academy history (Jimmy Carter, President of United States was a classmate). Murray was the heavyweight boxing champion of his brigade at the Naval Academy.
After graduation he circled the globe on a destroyer and then entered Naval Submarine School in New London, CT in 1948. His first submarine assignment was aboard the USS Becuna, and then he returned to school to work on a Master's Degree where his final thesis was entitled, "Investigation Of The Output Of Clippers To Gaussian Inputs." The thesis was 60 pages of a formula and he continued to talk in great detail about his work 70 years after it was written.
While in post graduate school in Monterey, California, he flew to Honolulu to visit his parents at Christmas. His father was the Commanding Officer of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, and during his visit he met the girl next door, Sarah Elizabeth Bauernschmidt, the daughter of another Admiral. They fell in love and were married in Honolulu on July 18, 1953.
As children of naval officers, Stuart and Sarah were fully prepared for a life on the move. They had five sons together, and the family moved from Monterey to Quaker Hill, CT, to Kittery, ME, to Arlington, VA, to Coronado, CA, to Subic Bay, Philippines, back to Coronado, CA, to Ridgewood, NJ and to Gales Ferry, CT where he lived for 40 years before moving to Hudson.
Stuart served in the United States Navy for 27 years and retired in 1966 as a Lt. Commander. During his career he was engineer and navigator on the USS Jallao that set out to circumnavigate the world, but the mission changed to go through the Mediterranean Sea, through the Suez Canal, down the eastern coast of Africa, around the Cape of Good Hope, across the Atlantic and up the eastern coast of South America. He was the executive officer of the USS Bang, and in 1958 he was assigned to Office of Naval Research (ONR) where he worked on submarine warfare.
As part of his work at ONR he was project manager of the Trieste dive into the Marianas Trench, the deepest spot on earth. The possibility of being a member of a historic dive seven miles beneath the ocean's surface was derailed by the physical size of his body, which at 6'2", 230 pounds, would have cramped the space inside the deep-sea submersible.
Much of his naval career was focused on submarine warfare and unconventional detection of submarines. After retirement from the navy he worked for another two decades analyzing submarine warfare for private contractors, Litton, CONRAC and General Electric.
After retiring from GE in 1986 he launched a radon testing company and then became Master Tax Advisor for H&R Block where he managed a local office in Gales Ferry, Connecticut until he was 85 years old. Sarah died in 2005 and a few years later he moved to Hudson to be near family. Stuart loved food, particularly seafood, and he celebrated his 95th birthday by eating 47 oysters on the half shell with his family and friends watching on at Laurel Lake. Stuart had a steady stream of family visits at Laurel Lake, and his son George and his family joined him for Sunday brunch every week for more than a decade.
Stuart was a lifelong Republican, admired John Wayne, loved his country and when asked, he always showed up. He was a member of the Hudson Rotary Club, Christ Church Episcopal in Hudson, and was on the food committee at Laurel Lake for many years. He loved playing bridge, buying lottery tickets, and studying the menu at Laurel Lake. In addition to his extensive collection of aloha shirts, he also loved papaya, avocados, Ben and Jerry's ice cream, and cookies.
Stuart was predeceased by his wife, Sarah, two sons, Robert Edward Murray and Charles Richard Murray, daughter-in-law Cynthia Murray and grandson Steven Margulies. He is survived by three sons, Stuart Grant Murray Jr. of Streetsboro, OH, George William Murray of Hudson, OH, and John Hutchins Murray of Morris, CT. He is also survived by daughter-in-law Judy Murray of Hudson, and six grandchildren: Elizabeth Alison Murray, George William Murray Jr. and his wife Amy, Charlie Murray (all from Hudson), Chelsea Murray Kaneb and her husband Michael of Torrington, CT, and Shari Margulies and Marcy Thomaswick of CT, and great-grandchildren Ethan Thomaswick, Jasen Thomaswick, Zoe Kaneb, Brielle Murray (of Hudson). He is also survived by his younger sister, Suzanne Stroup.
A memorial service for Stuart Grant Murray will be held 1:30 PM Sunday, February 20, 2022 at Christ Church Episcopal at 21 Aurora Street in Hudson. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking that anyone interested in making a donation, send to the Charles Richard Murray Memorial Scholarship Fund, Ledyard High School, 24 Gallup Hill Road, Ledyard, Ct 06339. Arrangements by Johnson-Romito Funeral Home, Hudson, Ohio.
Murray was born May 12, 1922 in Los Angeles, California. He was the eldest child of Admiral Stuart Shadrick Murray (USN) and Madeleine Young Murray, and as a member of a Naval family his childhood was on the go. His first steps were taken on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii and in his formative years he lived in Santa Barbara, California, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, New London, Connecticut and Coronado, California.
Murray joined the Naval Reserves at 17 years of age and went through flight training school before the age of 20. Murray graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree from the United States Naval Academy, Class of 1947, widely considered one of the most influential classes in academy history (Jimmy Carter, President of United States was a classmate). Murray was the heavyweight boxing champion of his brigade at the Naval Academy.
After graduation he circled the globe on a destroyer and then entered Naval Submarine School in New London, CT in 1948. His first submarine assignment was aboard the USS Becuna, and then he returned to school to work on a Master's Degree where his final thesis was entitled, "Investigation Of The Output Of Clippers To Gaussian Inputs." The thesis was 60 pages of a formula and he continued to talk in great detail about his work 70 years after it was written.
While in post graduate school in Monterey, California, he flew to Honolulu to visit his parents at Christmas. His father was the Commanding Officer of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, and during his visit he met the girl next door, Sarah Elizabeth Bauernschmidt, the daughter of another Admiral. They fell in love and were married in Honolulu on July 18, 1953.
As children of naval officers, Stuart and Sarah were fully prepared for a life on the move. They had five sons together, and the family moved from Monterey to Quaker Hill, CT, to Kittery, ME, to Arlington, VA, to Coronado, CA, to Subic Bay, Philippines, back to Coronado, CA, to Ridgewood, NJ and to Gales Ferry, CT where he lived for 40 years before moving to Hudson.
Stuart served in the United States Navy for 27 years and retired in 1966 as a Lt. Commander. During his career he was engineer and navigator on the USS Jallao that set out to circumnavigate the world, but the mission changed to go through the Mediterranean Sea, through the Suez Canal, down the eastern coast of Africa, around the Cape of Good Hope, across the Atlantic and up the eastern coast of South America. He was the executive officer of the USS Bang, and in 1958 he was assigned to Office of Naval Research (ONR) where he worked on submarine warfare.
As part of his work at ONR he was project manager of the Trieste dive into the Marianas Trench, the deepest spot on earth. The possibility of being a member of a historic dive seven miles beneath the ocean's surface was derailed by the physical size of his body, which at 6'2", 230 pounds, would have cramped the space inside the deep-sea submersible.
Much of his naval career was focused on submarine warfare and unconventional detection of submarines. After retirement from the navy he worked for another two decades analyzing submarine warfare for private contractors, Litton, CONRAC and General Electric.
After retiring from GE in 1986 he launched a radon testing company and then became Master Tax Advisor for H&R Block where he managed a local office in Gales Ferry, Connecticut until he was 85 years old. Sarah died in 2005 and a few years later he moved to Hudson to be near family. Stuart loved food, particularly seafood, and he celebrated his 95th birthday by eating 47 oysters on the half shell with his family and friends watching on at Laurel Lake. Stuart had a steady stream of family visits at Laurel Lake, and his son George and his family joined him for Sunday brunch every week for more than a decade.
Stuart was a lifelong Republican, admired John Wayne, loved his country and when asked, he always showed up. He was a member of the Hudson Rotary Club, Christ Church Episcopal in Hudson, and was on the food committee at Laurel Lake for many years. He loved playing bridge, buying lottery tickets, and studying the menu at Laurel Lake. In addition to his extensive collection of aloha shirts, he also loved papaya, avocados, Ben and Jerry's ice cream, and cookies.
Stuart was predeceased by his wife, Sarah, two sons, Robert Edward Murray and Charles Richard Murray, daughter-in-law Cynthia Murray and grandson Steven Margulies. He is survived by three sons, Stuart Grant Murray Jr. of Streetsboro, OH, George William Murray of Hudson, OH, and John Hutchins Murray of Morris, CT. He is also survived by daughter-in-law Judy Murray of Hudson, and six grandchildren: Elizabeth Alison Murray, George William Murray Jr. and his wife Amy, Charlie Murray (all from Hudson), Chelsea Murray Kaneb and her husband Michael of Torrington, CT, and Shari Margulies and Marcy Thomaswick of CT, and great-grandchildren Ethan Thomaswick, Jasen Thomaswick, Zoe Kaneb, Brielle Murray (of Hudson). He is also survived by his younger sister, Suzanne Stroup.
A memorial service for Stuart Grant Murray will be held 1:30 PM Sunday, February 20, 2022 at Christ Church Episcopal at 21 Aurora Street in Hudson. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking that anyone interested in making a donation, send to the Charles Richard Murray Memorial Scholarship Fund, Ledyard High School, 24 Gallup Hill Road, Ledyard, Ct 06339. Arrangements by Johnson-Romito Funeral Home, Hudson, Ohio.
Hudson became a little less colorful on January 17, 2022 when Stuart Grant Murray, age 99, passed away at Laurel Lake after a brief illness. Murray moved to Hudson 14 years ago to be near family, and made an immediate splash at the retirement community when he showed up in the dining room wearing a bright Hawaiian aloha shirt. Murray's life-long love of Hawaii was celebrated every day inside Laurel Lake with a festive aloha shirt, and his devotion to aloha shirts is credited with loosening the dress code inside Laurel Lake.
Murray was born May 12, 1922 in Los Angeles, California. He was the eldest child of Admiral Stuart Shadrick Murray (USN) and Madeleine Young Murray, and as a member of a Naval family his childhood was on the go. His first steps were taken on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii and in his formative years he lived in Santa Barbara, California, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, New London, Connecticut and Coronado, California.
Murray joined the Naval Reserves at 17 years of age and went through flight training school before the age of 20. Murray graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree from the United States Naval Academy, Class of 1947, widely considered one of the most influential classes in academy history (Jimmy Carter, President of United States was a classmate). Murray was the heavyweight boxing champion of his brigade at the Naval Academy.
After graduation he circled the globe on a destroyer and then entered Naval Submarine School in New London, CT in 1948. His first submarine assignment was aboard the USS Becuna, and then he returned to school to work on a Master's Degree where his final thesis was entitled, "Investigation Of The Output Of Clippers To Gaussian Inputs." The thesis was 60 pages of a formula and he continued to talk in great detail about his work 70 years after it was written.
While in post graduate school in Monterey, California, he flew to Honolulu to visit his parents at Christmas. His father was the Commanding Officer of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, and during his visit he met the girl next door, Sarah Elizabeth Bauernschmidt, the daughter of another Admiral. They fell in love and were married in Honolulu on July 18, 1953.
As children of naval officers, Stuart and Sarah were fully prepared for a life on the move. They had five sons together, and the family moved from Monterey to Quaker Hill, CT, to Kittery, ME, to Arlington, VA, to Coronado, CA, to Subic Bay, Philippines, back to Coronado, CA, to Ridgewood, NJ and to Gales Ferry, CT where he lived for 40 years before moving to Hudson.
Stuart served in the United States Navy for 27 years and retired in 1966 as a Lt. Commander. During his career he was engineer and navigator on the USS Jallao that set out to circumnavigate the world, but the mission changed to go through the Mediterranean Sea, through the Suez Canal, down the eastern coast of Africa, around the Cape of Good Hope, across the Atlantic and up the eastern coast of South America. He was the executive officer of the USS Bang, and in 1958 he was assigned to Office of Naval Research (ONR) where he worked on submarine warfare.
As part of his work at ONR he was project manager of the Trieste dive into the Marianas Trench, the deepest spot on earth. The possibility of being a member of a historic dive seven miles beneath the ocean's surface was derailed by the physical size of his body, which at 6'2", 230 pounds, would have cramped the space inside the deep-sea submersible.
Much of his naval career was focused on submarine warfare and unconventional detection of submarines. After retirement from the navy he worked for another two decades analyzing submarine warfare for private contractors, Litton, CONRAC and General Electric.
After retiring from GE in 1986 he launched a radon testing company and then became Master Tax Advisor for H&R Block where he managed a local office in Gales Ferry, Connecticut until he was 85 years old. Sarah died in 2005 and a few years later he moved to Hudson to be near family. Stuart loved food, particularly seafood, and he celebrated his 95th birthday by eating 47 oysters on the half shell with his family and friends watching on at Laurel Lake. Stuart had a steady stream of family visits at Laurel Lake, and his son George and his family joined him for Sunday brunch every week for more than a decade.
Stuart was a lifelong Republican, admired John Wayne, loved his country and when asked, he always showed up. He was a member of the Hudson Rotary Club, Christ Church Episcopal in Hudson, and was on the food committee at Laurel Lake for many years. He loved playing bridge, buying lottery tickets, and studying the menu at Laurel Lake. In addition to his extensive collection of aloha shirts, he also loved papaya, avocados, Ben and Jerry's ice cream, and cookies.
Stuart was predeceased by his wife, Sarah, two sons, Robert Edward Murray and Charles Richard Murray, daughter-in-law Cynthia Murray and grandson Steven Margulies. He is survived by three sons, Stuart Grant Murray Jr. of Streetsboro, OH, George William Murray of Hudson, OH, and John Hutchins Murray of Morris, CT. He is also survived by daughter-in-law Judy Murray of Hudson, and six grandchildren: Elizabeth Alison Murray, George William Murray Jr. and his wife Amy, Charlie Murray (all from Hudson), Chelsea Murray Kaneb and her husband Michael of Torrington, CT, and Shari Margulies and Marcy Thomaswick of CT, and great-grandchildren Ethan Thomaswick, Jasen Thomaswick, Zoe Kaneb, Brielle Murray (of Hudson). He is also survived by his younger sister, Suzanne Stroup.
A memorial service for Stuart Grant Murray will be held 1:30 PM Sunday, February 20, 2022 at Christ Church Episcopal at 21 Aurora Street in Hudson. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking that anyone interested in making a donation, send to the Charles Richard Murray Memorial Scholarship Fund, Ledyard High School, 24 Gallup Hill Road, Ledyard, Ct 06339. Arrangements by Johnson-Romito Funeral Home, Hudson, Ohio.
Murray was born May 12, 1922 in Los Angeles, California. He was the eldest child of Admiral Stuart Shadrick Murray (USN) and Madeleine Young Murray, and as a member of a Naval family his childhood was on the go. His first steps were taken on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii and in his formative years he lived in Santa Barbara, California, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, New London, Connecticut and Coronado, California.
Murray joined the Naval Reserves at 17 years of age and went through flight training school before the age of 20. Murray graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree from the United States Naval Academy, Class of 1947, widely considered one of the most influential classes in academy history (Jimmy Carter, President of United States was a classmate). Murray was the heavyweight boxing champion of his brigade at the Naval Academy.
After graduation he circled the globe on a destroyer and then entered Naval Submarine School in New London, CT in 1948. His first submarine assignment was aboard the USS Becuna, and then he returned to school to work on a Master's Degree where his final thesis was entitled, "Investigation Of The Output Of Clippers To Gaussian Inputs." The thesis was 60 pages of a formula and he continued to talk in great detail about his work 70 years after it was written.
While in post graduate school in Monterey, California, he flew to Honolulu to visit his parents at Christmas. His father was the Commanding Officer of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, and during his visit he met the girl next door, Sarah Elizabeth Bauernschmidt, the daughter of another Admiral. They fell in love and were married in Honolulu on July 18, 1953.
As children of naval officers, Stuart and Sarah were fully prepared for a life on the move. They had five sons together, and the family moved from Monterey to Quaker Hill, CT, to Kittery, ME, to Arlington, VA, to Coronado, CA, to Subic Bay, Philippines, back to Coronado, CA, to Ridgewood, NJ and to Gales Ferry, CT where he lived for 40 years before moving to Hudson.
Stuart served in the United States Navy for 27 years and retired in 1966 as a Lt. Commander. During his career he was engineer and navigator on the USS Jallao that set out to circumnavigate the world, but the mission changed to go through the Mediterranean Sea, through the Suez Canal, down the eastern coast of Africa, around the Cape of Good Hope, across the Atlantic and up the eastern coast of South America. He was the executive officer of the USS Bang, and in 1958 he was assigned to Office of Naval Research (ONR) where he worked on submarine warfare.
As part of his work at ONR he was project manager of the Trieste dive into the Marianas Trench, the deepest spot on earth. The possibility of being a member of a historic dive seven miles beneath the ocean's surface was derailed by the physical size of his body, which at 6'2", 230 pounds, would have cramped the space inside the deep-sea submersible.
Much of his naval career was focused on submarine warfare and unconventional detection of submarines. After retirement from the navy he worked for another two decades analyzing submarine warfare for private contractors, Litton, CONRAC and General Electric.
After retiring from GE in 1986 he launched a radon testing company and then became Master Tax Advisor for H&R Block where he managed a local office in Gales Ferry, Connecticut until he was 85 years old. Sarah died in 2005 and a few years later he moved to Hudson to be near family. Stuart loved food, particularly seafood, and he celebrated his 95th birthday by eating 47 oysters on the half shell with his family and friends watching on at Laurel Lake. Stuart had a steady stream of family visits at Laurel Lake, and his son George and his family joined him for Sunday brunch every week for more than a decade.
Stuart was a lifelong Republican, admired John Wayne, loved his country and when asked, he always showed up. He was a member of the Hudson Rotary Club, Christ Church Episcopal in Hudson, and was on the food committee at Laurel Lake for many years. He loved playing bridge, buying lottery tickets, and studying the menu at Laurel Lake. In addition to his extensive collection of aloha shirts, he also loved papaya, avocados, Ben and Jerry's ice cream, and cookies.
Stuart was predeceased by his wife, Sarah, two sons, Robert Edward Murray and Charles Richard Murray, daughter-in-law Cynthia Murray and grandson Steven Margulies. He is survived by three sons, Stuart Grant Murray Jr. of Streetsboro, OH, George William Murray of Hudson, OH, and John Hutchins Murray of Morris, CT. He is also survived by daughter-in-law Judy Murray of Hudson, and six grandchildren: Elizabeth Alison Murray, George William Murray Jr. and his wife Amy, Charlie Murray (all from Hudson), Chelsea Murray Kaneb and her husband Michael of Torrington, CT, and Shari Margulies and Marcy Thomaswick of CT, and great-grandchildren Ethan Thomaswick, Jasen Thomaswick, Zoe Kaneb, Brielle Murray (of Hudson). He is also survived by his younger sister, Suzanne Stroup.
A memorial service for Stuart Grant Murray will be held 1:30 PM Sunday, February 20, 2022 at Christ Church Episcopal at 21 Aurora Street in Hudson. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking that anyone interested in making a donation, send to the Charles Richard Murray Memorial Scholarship Fund, Ledyard High School, 24 Gallup Hill Road, Ledyard, Ct 06339. Arrangements by Johnson-Romito Funeral Home, Hudson, Ohio.
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