Kerry Anne Murphree

She was born and raised in Camden, Arkansas, and graduated from Fairview High School in 1990. Kerry always knew she wanted to help others and this desire led to a very successful nursing career.

She worked in the emergency room at Ouachita County Hospital and that is where she fell in love with prehospital care. It was during this time of education during EMT school in the fall of 1993 that she met and fell in love with her best friend, Justin Murphree, before completing her paramedic training and becoming a flight nurse and paramedic.

Justin and Kerry were married on October 18, 1997. She continued to chase her dreams and became a nurse practitioner in 2014 when she graduated with high honors. Since then she has been working and providing compassionate care to her patients at the Interfaith Clinic in El Dorado. She was honored as the 2017 Linda Stringfellow Spirit of Share award recipient. She was also awarded The Arkansas Nurse Practitioners Associations Nurse Practitioner of the year for 2020.

She was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents; R.P. & Virginia Burnham, paternal grandfather Monroe Harris, uncles Terry Burnham, Roger and Jimmy Harris and her brother in law, Shannon Griffin

She leaves behind to cherish her sweet, loving, and compassionate personality and memories to her husband and best friend, Justin of El Dorado and her daughter, the light of her world, Rachel of Ruston, Louisiana. Her parents, Tommy and Teresa Harris and grandmother Marguerite Harris, all of Camden. Mother in law Joan and father in law Shelby Murphree of El Dorado, Sisters in law Jennifer Griffin and Shelcy McGriff (Jeffery), and brother in law Blake Murphree (Emily Rhame). One of her favorite roles in life was that of “Aunt Kerry” and she was phenomenal at that to nephews Garrison Griffin, Kaden, Rayson, Corbit McGriff, Brooks Murphree and her precious niece Kinsley McGriff, all of El Dorado. Kerry also leaves a host of family, friends, colleagues, and patients.

Services under the direction of Young's Funeral Directors will be held Monday, November 29th at Our Savior Lutheran Church at 2:00 p.m. with Chuck Johnson and Sterling Claypoole officiating. Visitation will

be one hour prior to the service at the church.

In lieu of flowers memorials can be made to Our Savior Lutheran Church; 900 West Faulkner; El Dorado, AR 71730 or the Kerry Harris Murphree Memorial Scholarship c/o Union County Community Foundation, P.O. Box 148, El Dorado, AR 71731.

Honorary pallbearers will be Andy Aulds, Brodie Aulds, Jim Bolland, Jordan Bolland, Bobby Burnham, Paul Burns, Ty Harris, Drake Hosford, Evan James, Jeff McGriff, Blake Murphree, Billy Neeley, Will Neeley, Logan Porter, and Bruce Steinman.

A very special thank you goes to the staff at Genesis Cancer Center in Hot Springs for the love, care, and support they’ve given her and her family for almost 7 years, especially Dr. Robert Muldoon, Tiffany McConathy APRN, Kandi Keith RT, Bailey Rogers RN and Kenya Lambert RN.

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