Topic summary
Joseph Murray
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Joseph E. Murray.
Personal life and death
Joseph Murray married his college sweetheart, Virginia (Bobby) née Link, in June 1945, the two having first met at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. They would go on to have 6 children. Murray suffered a stroke at his suburban Boston home on Thanksgiving and died at age 93 on November 26, 2012, at Brigham and Women's Hospital, the same hospital where he performed the first organ transplant operation.