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Biographical Information: ROBERTA ELIZABETH PURVIS (BOBBIE), born 25th December 1934 in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. Teacher at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Mayor (1989-99) of Mill Neck, Long Island, New York. Living (2009) in Mill Neck. Married (4th January 1957 in Honolulu) Thomson Cochran Murray (Tom) (born 14th June 1933 in West Orange, New Jersey, died 3rd November 2006), publisher with Doubleday & Co., New York City, and of books and games with his own firm Interstate Directory Publishing Company Inc., a keen bagpiper and organiser of Locust Valley Clan Gordon pipe band, son of Gilbert Donald Murray (born 1898, died 1957) and Mary Cochran Thompson (born 1906, died 1991) of Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey, having two children:-