Daniel Murphy, 86, of 190 High Haith Road, died March 25, 2019, at Lakes Region General Hospital following a short illness. Born in Hanover, N.H. on July 07, 1932, he was the son of Jeremiah Murphy and Bertha Kendall Murphy. He grew up in NH, living at various times in Hanover, Concord, Center Harbor, and Pembroke. He graduated from Pembroke Academy in 1951, and the University of NH in 1956 with a BS in Forestry. Commissioned an officer in the US Army he served on active duty at Fort Bliss, Texas from 1956 through 1958, and on reserve status for the next several years. In 1959 he was employed by the US Forest Service and began his Forest Service career on the Saco Ranger District on the White Mountain Forest at Conway. After subsequent assignments in the Forest Supervisor's office in Laconia and on the Pemigewasset District in Plymouth, he was reassigned as Works Program Officer at the Branchville Job Corps Center in Branchville, Indiana on the Hoosier National Forest. In 1974 Murphy was reassigned District Ranger on the Bergland Ranger District, Ottawa National Forest at Bergland, Michigan, located in the Upper Peninsula. From there, he was promoted and transferred to the Nebraska National Forest as Staff Officer in the Forest Supervisor's office in Chadron, Nebraska which was the headquarters for two national forests and three national grasslands in Nebraska and South Dakota. He was responsible for a number of programs including recreation, timber, lands and minerals. Murphy retired from the Forest Service in December, 1985 and returned to NH. Following retirement, he went into the building trades for a number of years and fully retired in 2000. He was active in church service at St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church for many years. The family includes his wife Jean DeWitt Murphy, three sons, John M. Murphy of Rumney, Daniel E. Murphy of New Hampton, Michael B. Murphy of Saipan, Northern Marianna Islands, and daughter Patricia A. Pietig of Des Moines, Iowa; two stepdaughters, Gaylen Plant of Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany, and Monetta Sharp of Holderness, ten grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. A brother, Robert Murphy also resides in Center Harbor. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Monday April 1, 2019 at 1 PM at Saint Charles Borromeo Church in Meredith. Spring Burial will be at Center Harbor Memorial Park Cemetery. Visiting hours will be on Sunday March 31, 2019 at the Dupuis Funeral Home 11 Hill Ave. in Ashland from 4-7 PM. Family and friends are invited to attend. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to New Hampshire Catholic Charities, PO Box 686, Manchester, NH 03105-0686. For more info go to dupuisfuneralhome.com