Eunice Murray

Eunice Murray (b. 1902) was the housekeeper of Marilyn Monroe, who found the actress dead at home on August 5, 1962. Discrepancies in her accounts of the hours which led up to the discovery of Monroe's body have helped fuel speculation that her death was suspicious. Image File history File links Eunice_murray. ... Image File history File links Eunice_murray. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) is the twentieth-centurys most famous movie star, sex symbol and pop icon. ... August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ...

Born Eunice Joerndt in Chicago and raised in Urbana, Ohio as a Swedenborgian, she was educated at the Swedenborgian Urbana School and Academy, which she left at age sixteen in 1918. In 1921 she married John Murray and went on to have three children with him: Jaquelyn, Patricia and Marilyn. By the end of the Second World War in 1945 the Murrays were living in Santa Monica in a Monterey-style five-bedroom house, which, after she and her husband separated, Eunice sold to psychiatrist Ralph Greenson in 1946. Greenson and other psychiatrists subsequently hired Eunice Murray as a support worker for some of their most prestigious clients. Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Urbana is the name of some places in the United States of America: Urbana, Illinois Urbana, Maryland Urbana, Missouri Urbana, New York Urbana, Ohio Urbana is the name of a place in Italy: Urbana, Italy In addition, there is also, with a slightly different spelling: Urbanna, Virginia In addition, it... Official language(s) None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus (largest metropolitan area is Cleveland) Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 34th 116,096 km² 355 km 355 km 8. ... Emanuel Swedenborg, 75, holding the manuscript of Apocalypsis Revelata (1766). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica is a coastal city located in Los Angeles County, California USA, by the Pacific Ocean, south of Pacific Palisades and Brentwood, west of Westwood, Los Angeles, and north of Venice. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

In 1961 Greenson suggested that Marilyn Monroe recruit Murray as a homemaker and psychiatric aide, and Murray took up residence with Monroe. Murray located the house in Brentwood, California, in which Monroe was to spend the last months of her life, and, after they moved into it, began (according to the testimonies of Monroe's friends) reporting to Greenson on Monroe's daily activities. 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... Brentwood is the name of several places in the world: Cities Brentwood, California, United States of America Brentwood, Essex, England, United Kingdom Brentwood, Maryland, United States of America Brentwood, Missouri, United States of America Brentwood, New Hampshire, United States of America Brentwood, New York, United States of America Brentwood, Pennsylvania... Official language(s) English Capital Largest city Sacramento Los Angeles Area  - Total   - Width   - Length    - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 3rd 158,302 sq mi  410,000 km² 250 miles  400 km 770 miles  1,240 km 4. ...

After Monroe's untimely death, Murray lived quietly in various locations in West Los Angeles and Santa Monica, and at one time rented a guest cottage from the Stocking family. According to members of the Stocking family, Murray rented the bungalow behind their home near Santa Monica College from the mid-1960s until the mid-1970s. There, Murray pursued her many interests, including sewing, macrame, horticulture, and corresponding with friends and relatives across the country. According to the Stocking family, Murray sometimes cared for the Stocking's grandchildren and for Ethel Stocking, who had suffered several heart attacks. In the mid-70s, Murray married Franklin Blackmer, a minister of the Swedenborgian Church, and moved east with him to his home in Bath, Maine. Santa Monica College is a two-year public community college located in Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, California. ... Turn of the century sewing in Detroit, Michigan An old sewing machine Sewing is an ancient craft involving the stitching of cloth, leather, animal skins, furs, or other materials, using needle and thread. ... Categories: Needlework | Stub ... The Latin words hortus (garden plant) and cultura (culture) together form horticulture, classically defined as the culture or growing of garden plants. ...

After being left a widow, she returned to her family in Southern California, living usually on the Westside just a few miles away from Monroe's former home on Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood. Because of so many continued queries from the press, Murray told the facts as she had experienced them of the events of the night of Monroe's passing in her book entitled: Marily: The Last Months (co-authored by Rose Shade, Pyramid Books, 1975). She lived the last years of her life with family members in Tucson, Ariz. She died in the early 1990's. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...

Since 1962 and to this day, details in Eunice Murray's account of Marilyn Monroe's death have been questioned by those who were seeking to twist the truth with one sensational story after another. She told once again how she had awoken during the night on Sunday, August 5, and attracted by a light from under Monroe's locked door, called Ralph Greenson. When she was unable to get a response from inside, Greenson instructed her to go outside and part the curtains of Monroe's open window to look in. When she told him that Monroe was lying unclothed and motionless on the bed, Greenson rushed over, broke a window and climbed into her bedroom. At ten to four in the morning Greenson called a doctor, who declared Marilyn Monroe dead. August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. ...

Much of the controversy about that night in 1962 stemmed from authors seeking to publish sensational stories, most of them filled with inaccuracies. Murray was quite gracious in allowing interviews, but as she grew older, biographers attempted to twist her words and edit films in such a way as to cast doubt on what she had said about the details of what had actually happened years before. Repeated investigations have yet to find evidence which supports these accusations by various authors, though some claim that questions still remain unanswered.

See also

• Marilyn Monroe
• The death of Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) is the twentieth-centurys most famous movie star, sex symbol and pop icon. ... Most try to make a case for murder due to her connection with the Kennedy family and the sometimes strange and unprofessional relationships between Monroe and her psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson; the housekeeper he hired for Monroe, Mrs. ...

References

• Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, by Donald Spoto (1993)
• Marilyn: The Last Months, by Eunice Murray, with Rose Shade (published in paperback by Pyramid Books, 1975)