Shirley Anderson Morris 1935-2002

MORRIS, ANDERSON, JOHNSON, MIILE, MOST, NAGLE

Posted By: David Hellwege (email)
Date: 9/9/2006 at 12:21:09

Shirley Anderson Morris, 67, of Fort Smith, AR, and formerly of Boone, died Thursday at St. Edward Mercy Medical Center, Fort Smith, of a blood clot. She was born April 15, 1935, in Ames, the daughter of Phillip and Alice (Johnson) Anderson. She married Paul A. Morris in Boone on July 21, 1956.

She graduated from Boone High School in 1953 and graduated from the Iowa Methodist School of Nursing in Des Moines. She was a registered nurse all her life, and had been working at Cooper Clinic in Fort Smith before retiring in 2000. The couple lived in Cedar Rapids, Neosho, MO, Security, CO, Marshalltown, Sioux City, North Little Rock, AR. and Fort Smith. She was a member of the Grand Avenue Baptist Church of Fort Smith and the church choir.

She was preceded in death by her parents. Survivors include her husband; two sons, David Morris and his wife, Lori, of Sioux City, Steven Morris and his wife, Dana, of North Little Rock, AR; two daughters, Pamela Miille and her husband, Tim, of Blackburn, MO, and Cathleen Most and her husband, Richard, of Van Buren, AR; two sisters, Charlene Anderson of Norwalk, and Carolyn Nagle and her husband, Dave, of Des Moines; 12 grandchildren, Sarah, Emily and Anna Morris of Sioux City, Angela Slimmer and her husband Brian of Blackburn, MO, Petty Officer 3rd Class Aaron Miille and his wife, Maren, of North Charleston, SC, Seaman Alexis Miile of Naples, Italy, Rachel, Ryan and Caleb Most of Van Buren, AR, and Paul, Jacob and Benjamin Morris of North Little Rock, AR; and one great-grandchild, Nathaniel Slimmer of Blackburn, MO.

Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Thursday at the Schroeder Memorial Chapel at Sixth and Marshall streets. Burial will be in the Boone Memorial Gardens.

Friends may call at the Schroeder Memorial Chapel at Sixth and Marshall streets from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. Visitation continues from 8 a.m. to service time on Thursday. Memorials may be given to the Polycystic Kidney Foundation of Kansas City, MO, or to her church.

Schroeder Memorial Chapel, Sixth and Marshall streets, is in charge of the arrangements.

[Source: Boone News-Republican via the WWW. Published 12/30/2002 ]