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Scott Morris, son of Mrs. Floyd Morris, 1706 Fall avenue, has been promoted to the rank of corporal with a technician's rating at Camp Forrest, Tennessee. Another son, Floyd Morris, is a sergeant in the armored force school at Fort Knox, Kentucky. A third son, Kenneth Morris, a corporal in the air corps, was reported missing in action in the Philippine area following the fall of Corregidor.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, August 27, 1942
IN UNIFORM.
Sgt. Scott M. Morris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Morris, 1506 Glendale boulevard, has reported at a Third air force bomber base, Gulfport, Miss., for an intensive training course as an engineer on a B-17 Flying Fortress. Sgt. Morris entered the service at Des Moines in February, 1942. His wife, Mrs. Lorraine Morris, is living in Gulfport.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, January 3, 1945
Scott Milton Morris was born Apr. 11, 1908 to Floyd W. and Myrtle Ratekin Morris. He died July 1, 1976 and is buried in Fort Bliss National Cemetery, El Paso, TX.
Source: ancestry.com
