Morris, Clella Mae (Thoman) 1924-2005

MORRIS, HUSTON, MCCARTY, COLE

Posted By: Debbie Nash - Volunteer (email)
Date: 3/8/2005 at 22:04:10

Clella Mae Morris
March 02, 2005

Clella Mae Morris, 80, formerly of Bonaparte, died at 12:55 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, 2005, at Van Buren Good Samaritan Center in Keosauqua.

The funeral will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Pedrick Funeral Home in Keosauqua, with the Rev. Catie Newman officiating. Burial will be in Harness Cemetery in Mount Sterling.

Visitation will open at 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home with the family present from 7-8 p.m.

Memorials to Bonaparte First Responders or the Van Buren Good Samaritan Center activity fund may be left at the funeral home or mailed to the family at PO Box 185, Bonaparte 52620.

Mrs. Morris was born May 25, 1924, in Mount Sterling, the daughter of C. Frederick and Florence Belle Huston Thoman. She married William H. Morris May 12, 1945, in Keosauqua. He died Feb. 1, 1999.

She grew up in the Mount Sterling area and attended Jordan school in rural Scotland County, Mo.

She lived most of her life in the Bonaparte community where she was a homemaker, operated a daycare center for children many years and also operated the Tastee-Freeze in Bonaparte.

Mrs. Morris had been resident at the Van Buren County Good Samaritan Center since November 1994.

She was a member of Bonaparte T.O.P.S. and loved caring for children, playing bingo and vegetable and flower gardening.

Survivors include two daughters, Linda McCarty and husband Richard and Candy Morris, all of Bonaparte; three sons, Charles Morris of Swedesburg, Gary Morris and wife Kathy of Fairfield and Gene Morris and wife Lorene of Bonaparte; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; and one sister, Waneta Cole of Montezuma.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Eston and Fred Thoman.

Courtesy of the Fairfield Daily Ledger Inc. 2005