Friends and colleagues took to social media to remember Mary Murphy upon the news of her death on Wednesday. Murphy was the longest-serving female legislator and second-longest-serving member of the Minnesota House. Murphy, a Democrat who represented Hermantown, died at the age of 85 on Christmas Day, just two days after suffering a stroke.

Mary Murphy lunched. The longest-serving woman in the Minnesota House, retired just two years, routinely sat alongside other politicians and laborers at a downtown restaurant and talked shop — and listened.

Former state Rep. Mary Murphy, the longest-serving woman in the history of the Minnesota House, died Wednesday at age 85.