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Martin Tracy

Martin Tracy

Murray resident Dr. Martin Tracy travels internationally as a social services consultant. His father Dr. J. Albert Tracy was head of the speech department for 24 years at Murray State Teacher's College then Murray State College.

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"Riley's Food Market"

Recently MSU students from India planted a tree honoring Mahatma Gandhi on land at the corner of 16th and Main in Murray. On this site once stood a family grocery store. Martin Tracy of Murray recalls when he and his family traded with Riley's Food Market and became a part of its community of customers. He enlisted the help of the store's proprietors' Thelma Riley Bailey and her husband Jack Bailey of Murray in this remembrance.

*Thelma Riley Bailey and her husband Jack Bailey live in Murray and fondly remember the community of customers they came to know through their service at Riley's Food Market, built in 1934, by Ezra Walton (E.W.) Riley.

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