Obituary for Sadye Lee Murphy

SADYE LEE MURPHY

Sadye Lee Murphy departed this life June 6, 2021. She was born November 18,1943 in Monroe, North Carolina to the parents of Harry Lee Byrd and Maggie Anna Byrd.

She was preceded in death by parents, sisters, Mary Anna Brewer and Helen Louise Byrd; brothers, Richard Byrd and David Byrd, and John Byrd.

She grew up in Monroe, North Carolina were she attended Windchester High School.

She resided in Newark, New Jersey where she was the Secretary for Mayor Kenneth Gibson. She later moved to Georgia where she was employed at Marta Transit in Atlanta, Georgia were she retired.

She moved to Knoxville, Tennessee where she lived until her passing.

Left to cherish her loving memories; son, Reginald Murphy, Georgia, brothers, Fred (Belinda) Byrd and William Byrd, Knoxville; sister, Nancy (Curtis) Bryan, Virginia; nieces, Toni (Marcus) Yarbrough, Knoxville, Kimberly (Tory) Woodard of Nashville, Michelle (Larry) Dennis, Virginia; nephews, Maurice Brewer, Ernie Jerome Brewer, Shannon (Barbette) Brewer, Knoxville, Shawn Byrd, Arizona, and Rashad Byrd; great nieces, Shannon Brewer, KeKe Brewer, Kalliayah, Knoxville, Layla and Shawnyce, Virginia; great nephews, Ronnie Underwood, Jr., Courtney Brewer, Jerome Brewer, Nathan Brewer, Knoxville, Maurice Geroge, and Xaiver Cherry, Dezmond Crough, North Carolina, Shawn Byrd, Jr. and Mylek. A host of relatives of the Byrd family in North Carolina and friends.

Family will receive friends, 2:00-2:30 p.m., Thursday, June 17, 2021 at Jarnigan’s Chapel; funeral service, 2:30 p.m.

Interment, Mount Olive Cemetery.

Arrangements by JARNIGAN & SON MORTUARY
www.jarnigansandson.com