Murray, Genevieve Allen, 1894-1983.

Genevieve Allen Murray was born in Milan, Illinois on October 5, 1894 to Andrew Allen, who worked for the Great Northern Railroad, and Elizabeth Penman Allen, a nurse. The Allen family moved as homesteaders to Williston, North Dakota where Genevieve finished high school. She began teaching in North Dakota and Montana schools in 1913, alternating teaching and attending Montana State (now University of Montana), where she received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Journalism in 1928 and 1929 respectively. She married Frank Murray, who was the superintendent of the Fairview, Montana school system in which she taught, on August 14, 1919. They moved to Massachusetts in 1929, where Frank received his law degree, then to Lexington, Kentucky in 1930 when Frank accepted a position as a law professor at the University of Kentucky, a position he held until his death in Chico, Montana while on vacation, August 28, 1951.

Genevieve gave up teaching when she moved from Montana, but remained very active in the community in Lexington. She was a courthouse beat reporter for the Lexington Herald for three months in 1941 and served in local, regional and national Girl Scout organizations, taking a troop to England in 1947 to participate in an international folk festival. She also served on the Public Health Center board (1933-1944), Community Chest board (1940-1945) and was the community training chair for Civil Defense (1940-1943).

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