REFLECTION ON LIFE IN BUFFALO NY (1932ý92)

About the Book

Tom Murphy, and his family, lived in Buffalo NY. At various times he was employed as a landscaper, appliance salesman, insurance agent, real estate developer, and civil servant.

He worked for, and with, some of Buffalo's most noted, and controversial business and political figures, including Joseph N Desmon, Harold Farber, Robert J Bradley, Philip B Schwab, Edward H Cottrell, as well as Frank Sedita, Stanley Makowski and Jimmy Griffin.

Murphy loved each and every job, and yet he always found time to laugh and to play with friends and family.

About the Author

Thomas Murphy was born on Buffalo?s West Side in 1932. He attended Holy Angels and Our Lady of Lourdes elementary schools, St Joseph?s Collegiate Institute and St Bonaventure Univ. He married Barbara Moore in 1952 and they spent the next forty-two years enjoying each other, their eight children and life in Buffalo NY.

Murphy served in administrative capacities in the offices of three Buffalo mayors, ?Sedita, Makowski, and Griffin?until his retirement from public service in 1992.

He now lives in Cove Cay, a golfing community, in Clearwater FL and can be reached at covekmurf@yahoo.com.