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Her husband, Thomas J. Hickey, died in 1985.

Survivors include two sons, Thomas J. Hickey of Clarksville and Robert Hickey of New York; and two grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Ardis G. MurphyPrivate-Duty Nurse

Ardis Greenman Murphy, 86, a Camp Springs resident who was a private-duty nurse at Washington area hospitals from the 1950s to the 1990s, died Dec. 22 at Southern Maryland Hospital Center in Clinton. She had Alzheimer's disease and diabetes.

Mrs. Murphy was a native of Cadillac, Mich., and a graduate of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Battle Creek Community Hospital's nursing school in Michigan.

She served in the Army Nurse Corps in Germany at the end of World War II.

Her marriage to Cornelius J. "Bud" Flaesch ended in divorce.

Survivors include her husband, Patrick Murphy of Camp Springs, whom she married in 1969; three children from her first marriage, Suzanne Thomas of Churchton, Md., Lia Melinda Bello of Taos, N.M., and Jon Flaesch of Elkridge; a stepdaughter, Patricia Stuecker of Phoenix; a sister; two brothers; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

A stepdaughter, Merlene Rayford, died in 2001.


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