Bert William Morrison

MORRISON, HOLLEN, TROW, WALKER, SHELTON, AGEE, BLACKBURN, DODDS

Posted By: Gloria Jean Dodds (email)
Date: 5/13/2002 at 03:31:46

Bert W. Morrison 80, longtime resident of Jefferson and Van Buren counties, died Saturday afternoon at his home, 3 1/2 miles southwest of Fairfield. He was born Aug 11, 1888 in Van Buren Co., the son of Emmett F. and Susanna Hollen Morrison. He married Mae Bell Trow on Nov 23, 1908. She died Nov 12, 1959. On May 10, 1961 he married Bertha Walker Morrison (she was previously married to his brother Ray Morrison, he died April 1957 in Cheyenne, Wyo.)
He lived in Fairfield 23 years. He was a barber in Stockport for 25 years and was a member of Libertyville Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife; three sons, Roger W. of Fairfield, Rex T., of Rockaway, N. J. and Major Richard Morrison of McDill AFB, Tampa, Fla; nine grandchildren; four great grandchildren, three step-sons, E. Walker Morrison of Santa Ana, Calif., Lt. Col. Robert Morrison of Forbes AFB., Topeka, Kans., and Edgar Morrison of Cheyenne, Wyo.; two step-daughters, Mrs. Claude Shelton of Dixon, Ill. and Mrs. D. J. Agee of Boulder Colo., 10 step grandchildren, one step-great grandchild; and two sisters, Lucy Blackburn of Selma and Minnie Dodds of Bonaparte.
Services were Wednesday, 2 p.m. at Libertyville. Weston Behner Funeral Home, Fairfield, was in charge of arrangements.