Arthur Gage Murphey, Jr.
Jun 16th, 1927 - Jul 3rd, 2020- Birth Date: Jun 16, 1927
- Death Date: Jul 3, 2020
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Biography: Arthur Gage Murphey, Jr., 93, of Little Rock, died July 3, 2020. He was born June 16, 1927 in Macon, Mississippi to Arthur Gage Murphey, Sr. and Jennie Elizabeth Crutcher Murphey.
Arthur was educated in the Macon, Mississippi public schools and received a BA degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a law degree from the University of Mississippi, and LL.M degree from Yale University. He also attended Vanderbilt University, studied at the London School of Economics of the University of London as a Fulbright Scholar, and took advanced studies at The Hague Academy of International Law and the University of Brussels. He served in the United States Army Air Forces from 1945 to 1947, and United States Air Force Reserves until 1963.
His law professor career spanned 41 years of teaching at the law schools of the University of Georgia, Emory University, the University of Akron, Western Reserve University, the Little Rock Division of the University of Arkansas Law School, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, from which he retired in 1997 with the distinction Arkansas Bar Foundation Professor of Law, awarded for outstanding teaching and excellence in scholarship in Arkansas law. He specialized in teaching Contracts, Commercial Law, International Law and International Business Transactions.
Arthur, affectionately known by those close to him as Artie; loved sharing time with family and friends, going out for dinner, watching football, and traveling abroad with his late wife, Linda. In retirement, he devoted nearly two decades of volunteer work to the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Cytogenetics lab and the Salvation Army. He was a devoted member of St. Andrews Anglican Church.
Arthur was preceded in death by his wife, Linda Sue Chaney Murphey, his parents, and his sister, Elizabeth Murphey Varner. He is survived by two sons, Mason Alexander Murphey of Little Rock and Arthur Nesbit Murphey and his wife, Lee, and two grandchildren, Aidan Elliot Murphey and Sabrina Delaine Murphey of Schertz, Texas; a stepdaughter, Leslie Lambert Pafford and her husband, Thomas (Mac), two granddaughters, Kerby Jo Barker and Chaney Jo Pafford of Houston, Texas, a great grandson, Charles Barker and a great granddaughter Violet Montgomery, both of Houston, Texas; and his sister, Sara Murphey Megehee and her husband, Carl, of Daphne, Alabama.
The guestbook and viewing for Mr. Murphey will be available from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at Ruebel Funeral Home, 6313 West Markham St., Little Rock, Arkansas 72205. Due to Covid-19, masks will be required for the viewing.
In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to the Salvation Army or Arkansas Children’s Hospital. A memorial for Arthur will follow at a later date. An online guestbook may be signed at ruebelfuneralhome.com
We affectionately called him "flipper" because he was always
having us flip from one page to another in comparing cases.
Helluva nice guy with a great sense of humor!