Eunice R. Murray

Eunice Joernt Murray Blackmer, known as Eunice Murray, (Chicago, March 3, 1902 - Tucson, March 5, 1994) was an American decorator, writer, professional companion and housekeeper. She was Marilyn Monroe's live-in housekeeper during the last months of Monroe's life, and accordingly was a principal witness in the investigation of .
Biography
Eunice Joernt was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 3, 1902. Her parents were Jehovah's Witnesses and at 15 she was sent to the Swedenborgian Urbana School in Urbana, Ohio. In 1924 she married John Murray, a Swedenborgian divinity student who gave up his studies to become instead a carpenter and an officer in the . They eventually moved to Los Angeles and built a large house in the Brentwood neighborhood. By 1946, when the house was completed, the Murrays' marriage was strained (they divorced in 1950), and she sold the house to Ralph Greenson, a distinguished psychiatrist. Greenson hired her to work as a companion and nurse for some of his patients. In 1961 she became the live-in maid for Greenson's client, Marilyn Monroe.<ref name="Spoto1993"/>
Witness in the Monroe investigation
In the official version of the actresses death she was to doubt the fate of the woman, recalled Ralph Greenson who had known her for a long time.
She changed, several times, the version of events as the one issued to Sergeant Jack Clemmons up to the one told in the book she co-wrote with Rose Shade, Marilyn: The last months published in 1975, where she said she had cleaned the bedroom and washed the sheets and clothes she wore at the time. She was fired after death of Marilyn Monroe and she retired.
Later life and death
After her sister Carolyn's death, Eunice married Carolyn's widower, Franklin.<ref name="Spoto1993"/>
She died in Tucson, Arizona on March 5, 1994 two days after turning 92 years.

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