Murray, Janice Lynn May 18, 1940 - Aug. 25, 2014 Janice Lynn Murray died in her Sarasota home on August 25, 2014. She was born in Portland, Oregon and grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. As an adult, she lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. before moving to Sarasota in 1991. She graduated from the Northfield School for Girls, Wellesley College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She taught English at the Newton South High School and then worked in educational research and development at the New England School Development Council, the National Institute of Education, and the Congressional Budget Office. She is survived by her three children, Hugh, Laura and Nicholas Murray of Sarasota and her brother, William B. Meissner of Sao Paulo, Brasil. According to her wishes, the immediate family will get together to celebrate her life, listen to the music of Mozart and Scott Joplin and place her ashes in the lagoon by her house. Her favorite local charity is the YMCA Foundation for its work with foster children and families in need.