MORRIS, Clarence A. 1886-1969
MORRIS, BILLHERNER, BILLHEIMER, BELTZ, SAGE, TAYLOR
Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 7/18/2013 at 23:55:00
[Waterloo Daily Courier, Monday, November 24, 1969, Waterloo, Iowa]
Memorial services for C. A. Morris, 83, of 256 Alta Vista Ave., pioneer Waterloo automobile dealer, will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the First Presbyterian Church with the Rev. C. Vin White, pastor of the church officiating.
Mr. Morris died at 4:30 a.m. Monday of complications of advanced age at Allen Memorial Home.
He was born Sept. 10, 1886, at Columbus Grove, Ohio, the son of Alfred and Margaret A. Billherner* Morris. He was graduated from Columbus Grove High School in 1905. On March 17, 1910, he married Ella Beltz in Cleveland, Ohio. He suffered a stroke in Pittsburgh, Pa., in September, 1956, while attending a convention.
Mr. Morris went with Cadillac Motor Co., Detroit, Mich., June. 1905, starting in the assembly room. In 1907, he went to Buffalo N. Y., as a Cadillac expert. In 1909, be became a salesman for Barger Automobile Co., Cleveland, Ohio, a Cadillac distributor. In 1932, his son, Joe B. Morris, joined his father in business, eventually becoming partner, secretary and vice president of the company known as Morris Motor Car Co., Inc., Cadillac distributors for Waterloo, over 42 years in the same location.
Mr. C. A. Morris was director of Waterloo Thrift Co.; director of AAA Club of Iowa; member of Elks, Moose, Rotary (past president); board member of YMCA (past president), Iowa State Automobile Dealers .Association (first, president, 1919), and later served a second term as president; one of the organizers of National Automobile Dealers Association (national director, 1936-42); member and past president Waterloo Chamber of Commerce, (1835036): Park Commissioner for 24 years; one two-year term as City Treasurer; Masons' Ascalon Commander, Cedar Rapids Consistory, Eastern Star; member of Sunnyside Country Club; Knife & Fork Club, Spokesman's Club and Symposium Club.
Mr. Morris was also on the Waterloo Airport Commission and one of the organizers of Waterloo's first airport company in 1927, occupying what was known as Chapman Field and used until Waterloo Municipal Airport was completed in 1948.
He was a member of First Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Jack Sage, 150 Hope St.; six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs Gladys Taylor, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, two sons and two brothers.
Friends may contribute to the First Presbyterian Foundation.
O'Keefe & Towne Funeral Home will be in charge of the service.
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Gravestone at Fairview Cemetery, Waterloo, is inscribed:
Clarence A. Morris 1886-1969------------------------------------
*Researcher Chuck has his mother's maiden name as "Billheimer"
Census also shows no name of Billherner as the newspaper had it.
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