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Leah Murray, accomplished pilot formerly from MPK Leah MacGilvray Murray loved airplanes. She worked for a magazine about flying and was herself an accomplished pilot. Mrs. Murray, who was raised in Massapequa Park, died January 17, 2008 in Missouri City, Texas. Born in Massapequa Park, she was a 1943 graduate of Amityville High School who worked at Ziff- Davis Publishing in the sales department for Flying Magazine in Manhattan. She learned how to fly at Fitzmaurice Airport and, according to her family, she was signed off for solo flight after only eight hours of flying time, which is unparalleled today. She was also an avid golfer who won many tournaments. For many years, she and her family lived in Aruba, Spain and Belgium before settling in Missouri, Texas. Mrs. Murray leaves behind her children: Christine Bruckner, Leah Civitillo and her husband Michael, Patricia Morris and her husband Daniel, Stephen Murray and his wife Dolores, Karen Vedder and her husband William and Katherine Del Aguila and her husband Franz; her brother, James MacGilvray of California; her eight grandchildren; two great grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband of 57 years Jerome, her parents, her brother Jack MacGilvray and her sister Katherine Butler.
Burial took place in Houston National Cemetery where she was interred with her husband.
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