On September 11, 2001 we lost a dearly loved family member and the world lost an irreplaceable human being.

John was born September 17, 1968, the sixth of seven children to Mary Louise and Philip Murray. He was an honor student throughout his school years and displayed his leadership abilities as an ocean lifeguard in Long Island, New York. Following his graduation from Boston College in 1990, John began a career as a broker in the financial community of New York City. He enjoyed considerable success, spending the last 7 years of his career as a Partner and Director of Cantor Fitzgerald.

In June of 1999, John married Rory Owens. After spending the year 2000 in London working for Cantor Fitzgerald International, John and Rory returned home to start a family. John was never more fulfilled then in April 2001 when his only child, Alyson Rose, was born.

In 1997, John founded and launched Putt for Progress to raise money and awareness to benefit the Thomas Jefferson University Scleroderma Center in their efforts to find a cure for the relatively unknown disease of Scleroderma. John's sister, Cathy, was diagnosed with the disease when she was 31. Despite the average life expectancy for patients affected by the disease to be 10 years, Cathy is surviving and doing well today. With the help of his family, John succeeded in raising nearly $200,000 for the Scleroderma Center.

In honor of John's memory and out of respect for what he set out to accomplish back in 1997, the John J. Murray Foundation was established in 2002 to continue to support these efforts and others. We are proud to continue the Putt for Progress ~ appropriately renamed Jack's Putt for Progress. In addition to raising funds to benefit Thomas Jefferson's Scleroderma Center, the John J. Murray Foundation also funds a scholarship program for students interested in attending John's high school, Salesianum based in Wilmington, Delaware. It is also our hope that over time the Foundation may be able to assist additional causes that will provide a fuller life for others and allow John's spirit to live on in all of us.

We hope that you can join us for future events and remember John's passion for life, his kindness and generosity, and his love for the game of golf. John was a wonderful son, a loving and devoted husband, father, brother and friend. We miss him greatly but will carry on in his name and in his memory.