Doris Bailey Murphy was born in Portland, Oregon, March 1, 1910. She graduated from Reed College in 1938, moving to San Francisco where she became a welfare worker with the Traveler’s Aid Society. She married Joseph Murphy in San Francisco in 1948. They moved to Occidental in 1958. She was a senior psychiatric social worker from 1958 to 1963 and district office supervisor with the state Department of Mental Health from 1963 to 1974. Doris worked as a therapist with the Family Service Agency until she was 90. She died March 21, 2011 at her home in Occidental, CA at the age of 101.