MORRISON, Mitchell Walton 1920-1994

MORRISON, HUBBARD, ARJES

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 9/22/2011 at 18:36:35

Mitchell Walton Morrison
Jan. 19, 1920
Dec. 10, 1994

OBITUARY-

AUSTIN, MINNESOTA - The funeral for Mitchell W. Morrison will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Grace Baptist Church in Austin, with the Rev. Jack Dowden officiating. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery in Austin, with military graveside rites by Olaf B. Damm VFW Post 1216.

Mr. Morrison, 74, of 1913 Third Ave. S.E., a retired Hormel Foods Corp. employee, died Saturday (Dec. 10, 1994) at St. Olaf Hospital in Austin.

Born January 19, 1920, in Cherokee, Iowa to Walton and Bernice (Hubbard) Morrison. He attended schools in the Osage, Iowa, area and served in the Army during World War II. On November 1, 1945, he married Maxine Stockdale in Osage. Mr. Morrison was a member of the VFW.

Survivors include his wife; three sons, Dr. Michael C. and Mitchell R., both of Mason City, Iowa, and John E. of Austin; three daughters, Sharon Thomsen of Barrigada, Guam, and Janice Morrison and Michelle (Mrs. Cory) Arjes, both of Austin; 14 grandchildren; a sister, Mary Cullen of La Crosse, Wis.; and three brothers, Robert of Austin, John of Carroll, Iowa, and Walton of Mason City. A brother preceded him in death.

Friends may call from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at Clasen-Jordan Mortuary in Austin and an hour before the service Wednesday at the church.

[Austin Daily Herald - Austin, Minnesota]

(Credit: SB)