 He was the Bishop of Youngstown, after previously serving as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Bishop of Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands.He submitted his resignation in May 2020 after suffering a relapse of leukemia, but died before it was accepted.Murry was born in Camden, New Jersey, on December 28, 1948, to Viola Murry and George Vance Murry II.