Teresa Ray The speaker for our Winter Meeting was Teresa Ray who spoke about her upbringing in the South Graves County orphanage, Paradise Friendly Home, and her project “Paradise Friendly Home Revisited”.   Teresa became a resident of Paradise Friendly Home in December 1961 and lived there until her high school graduation in 1967.   She spoke of the founders, Leslie and Thelma Murdock, about how she came to be a resident, about life with 50-70 “siblings”, and the demise of the orphanage.   Although in the beginning (1935) the Murdocks did not receive any financial or other assistance, eventually almost all of…

Mausoleum of Thelma and Leslie Murdock, founders of Paradise Friendly Home, Highway 97, Bell City, KY (south Graves County) We had the extreme pleasure of talking with Teresa Ray of the Paradise Friendly Home an orphans’ home located in Farmington, KY. She recounted her time there as an orphan as well as Paradise Friendly Home’s place in the history of Western Kentucky. She will be the guest speaker at the quarterly meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society on January 16. Now available through iTunes or you can listen to it here. Powered by Podbean.com