JULIA CASTLE
  
NIPPA WOMAN DIED FRIDAY
  
Mrs. Julia Castle, 82, Succumbs To Paralytic Stroke.
  
Mrs. Julia Murphy Castle, of Nippa, died last Friday at the Golden
Rule Hospital, following a stroke of paralysis from which she never
rallied.
  
Mrs. Castle had long been prominent and respected in her neighborhood.
She was 82 years old and was the last surviving member of a number of
brothers and sisters of the Murphy family.
  
Her husband had preceded her to the grave.
  
Mrs. Castle was a sister of the late Crock Murphy of the Toms Creek
section and of Robert Murphy who died in Paintsville several years
ago.
  
She was a devout Christian and she had been a member of the United
Baptist Church for more than fifty years.
  
She was possibly the oldest woman of her section.
  
She was the mother of John Castle, chairman of the Johnson County
Board of Education.
  
Besides Mr. Castle she is survived by the following daughters; Mrs.
Jemima Castle, Flemingsburg, Ky.; Mrs. Cora Fairchild and Mrs. Stella
Saddler, Nippa, and Mrs. Belle Brown of River.
    
Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Saddler, at Nippa, in charge of Rev. Thurman Ferguson
of the United Baptist Church.
    
Burial was in the family cemetery at Nippa in charge of the Preston
Funeral Home of Paintsville.
    
Paintsville Herald
Thursday
January 19, 1939

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