Mary Frances Liebert

LOUISVILLE - Mary Frances (Gatton) Murphy Liebert (1930 - 2021)

Mary Frances Liebert, age 91, of Louisville passed away peacefully in her sleep July 28, 2021, at Nazareth Home.

She was born February 4, 1930 on a farm near Caneyville, KY. She began a lifelong love of learning and later teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in Goff, KY. Mary Frances began her career teaching Home Economics at Sinking Fork High School near Hopkinsville, KY. Most of her career was spent as an elementary school teacher in Louisville, KY at Alex R Kennedy, Hawthorne, & Klondike elementary schools.

Mary Frances was a 1947 graduate of Caneyville High School, a 1949 graduate of Mount St. Joseph Academy in Owensboro and a 1951 graduate of Nazareth College in Bardstown, KY. She received her Master’s degree in elementary education at St Louis University in St. Louis, MO and completed her Rank One at the University of Louisville in 1964.

Mary Frances was preceded in death by her first husband and the father of her children, Hubert Rock Murphy; and her second husband, Maurice Louis Liebert, a dear friend to her children. She was the daughter of Wales & Gertrude Gatton who also preceded her in death.

Left to cherish her memory are four children: Tom Murphy, Anita Murphy (Donald) McLaughlin, Hugh Murphy, & Rosemary Murphy (Lewis) Bradley as well as six grandchildren (Laura McLaughlin Barnes, Mary Katherine Bradley, Parker Bradley, Jennifer McLaughlin Stanton, Vanessa Bradley, & Sarah Bess McLaughlin Clark) and four great-grandchildren (John, Caroline, Elliott, & Rebecca).

Services for Mary Frances will be held at 10am Friday, August 6 at Epiphany Catholic Church, 914 Old Harrods Creed Road, Louisville with burial at St Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Leitchfield, KY. Visitation will be held from 4:00 - 8:00pm Thursday, August 5 at Highlands Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Rd, Louisville 40205.

The family requests that expressions of sympathy be made in memory of Mary Frances to the Emily Beeler Scholarship Fund, Sacramento Bank, 102 North Main Street, Caneyville, KY 42721, Hosparus, or a charity of your choice.