12-07-2025
Gerard C. Murphy Gerry Murphy was born in Brooklyn, New York
Jul. 11—Gerard C. Murphy Gerry Murphy was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 14, 1947 and left this world on June 18, 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He graduated from Fordham College, Magna Cum Laude, with a B.A. in Mathematics, and also received an M.S. in Mathematics from Polytechnic Institute of New York where he completed all course work towards a Ph.D. He taught Math at the Hackley School in Tarry-town, New York from 1971 to 1990 where he became Chairman of the Department and was awarded the Wallace McLean Chair in Math and Science. He then taught Math at Albuquerque Academy from 1990 to 2011. He loved teaching, skiing, playing tennis, traveling, reading, taking photographs, music, and was a member of the Zen Buddhist community in New York. Gerry will always be remembered as smart and very funny. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. He leaves behind his wife of 56 years, Doreen Mazza Murphy; his sister, Virginia Murphy of Durham, England and her family; and his brother-in-law, Tony Mazza and wife Mona Look-Mazza of Aspen, Colorado. He is the son of the late Francis Murphy and Dorothy Colvell Murphy and the nephew of the late Virginia Colvell, all of Brooklyn, New York. There will be a private graveside service at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.
