Lindsey Derl MORRIS

MORRIS, PALS, HARRIS, EMERY, FOSS, PHELPS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/26/2008 at 09:40:42

September 24, 1998
Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa

CLEAR LAKE — Lindsey Derl Morris, 46, of Clear Lake, passed away Tuesday (Sept. 22, 1998) at North Iowa Mercy Health Center, Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Dugger-Ewing Funeral Home, Belmond, with the Rev. Herm Gruis and the Rev. Fred Lewis officiating. Cremation will take place. Burial will be held at a later date. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Dugger Ewing Funeral Home, Belmond, and one hour prior to services on Friday.

Lindsey, the son of Derl and Betty Pals Morris, was born March 7, 1952, in the Belmond Community Hospital, Belmond, Iowa. He attended Belmond school and graduated from Belmond High School. He attended cooking school in Mankato, Minn. He was united in marriage with Jane Harris on June 22, 1973, in Belmond, Iowa. He worked at the Clear Lake Bakery and Keith Sanitation. He later worked at the Perkins Restaurant in Clear Lake where he has been employed for the last 10 years. Lindsey enjoyed cooking and gardening.

He is survived by his parents, Derl and Betty Morris, of Belmond; four children, Susan and her husband, Clay; Dara, Michael and Ryan; one sister, RoxAnne and her husband, Lyman Emery, of Cedar Rapids; two brothers, Kerry Morris, of Belmond and Brian Morris, of Minneapolis, Minn.; his maternal grandmother, Dena Pals, of Belmond; his paternal grandmother, Ruby Morris, of Belmond; three aunts, Evie and her husband, Bob Foss, of Belmond; Wanda and her husband, Leonard Pals, of Clear Lake; Diane and her husband, Dale Phelps, of Waterloo; various nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. He was preceded in death by his grandson, Shane; maternal grandfather, Henry Pals; paternal grandfather, Glenn Morris; and an Uncle Gordon.