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1927-2014
FREEPORT -- Dr. Valerie Young (Knowlton) Murray died August 8, 2014, at her home in Freeport. Born on Jan. 9, 1927, in Augusta, Maine, to Cecil Knowlton and Ida Muriel (Young) Knowlton. Along with her mother, she lived with her grandparents, Daniel S. Young, Jr., and Maud Young, who raised her and her sister Patricia.
She was educated in Augusta schools and graduated as valedictorian of Cony High School in 1945. She then attended Smith College in Northampton, Mass., graduating in 1949 with an A.B. in biology. It was at Smith that she developed what would prove to be lifelong friendships with Leigh Berrien Smith and Rose Sun Tchang. Following Smith, Valerie moved to Boston for graduate work at Harvard's Radcliffe College, receiving her Ph.D. in 1956.
During her time in Boston, she was a member of the historic Park Street Church, pastored at that time by Rev. Harold Ockenga, evangelical leader and founder of the National Association of...