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Donald N. Morrison
Services held Monday for Donald Morrison
Memorial services were held Monday at the Pioneer Presbyterian Church for Donald Norbert Morrison who died on Thursday, March 21, 1991 in the David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base. He was born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, on July 29, 1925, and was 65 years of age. Private cremation took place under the direction of Smith’s Colonial Chapel.
Mr. Morrison lived in Winters for the last four years. He served in the U.S. Navy for seven years and then served for 20 years in the U.S. Army. After his military career he worked for 20 years as a teletype repairman for the Southern Pacific Railroad Communication Division in Oakland.
Mr. Morrison operated the Winters Food Closet and also a member of the Yolo County Coalition Against Hunger.
He is survived by his wife, Florence A. Morrison of Winters, and his mother, Pearl Morrison of Bremerton, Washington. Also surviving are eight children: Linda Sullivan, Jeffery Morrison, Donald Ross Morrison, Jayne Hall and Colleen Morrison, all of Winters, and Jack Morrison, Charles Morrison and Steven Morrison, all of Hayward. He is also survived by brother, Dale Morrison of Port Orchard, Washington; two sisters, Barbara Lee of Port Orchard, Washington, and Eileen Garrison of Bremerton, Washington; and 11 grandchildren.
The family requests that any memorials be donations in his memory to the American Cancer Society.
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Duane A. Morrison
Duane A. Morrison of Olathe, Kan. died at Olathe Medical Center, Friday, March 18, 2005 at age 84.
Mr. Morrison was born March 20, 1920 in Loveland, Colo. He had been a Woodland resident for 30 years. He served during World War II in the Army Air Corps.
Survivors include Mr. Morrison's sons, Ray L. Morrison and his wife Barbara of Olathe, Kan. and Ron A. Morrison and his wife Kim of Oceanside and his grandchildren, Eric, Shawn, Bryan and Megan Morrison. He was preceded in death by his wife of 54 years, Wilma Lucille Bybee Morrison.
The family requests memorials in Mr. Morrison's name be directed to Olathe Good Samaritan Center, 20705 W. 151st St., Olathe, Kan. 66061-7222.
Services: A memorial service is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, March 20 at the College Church of the Nazarene Garrett Chapel in Olathe, Kan. Interment will be held at a later date at Monument Hill Memorial Park, Woodland. The Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home of Olathe, Kan. is assisting the family with arrangements.
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Royal Lee Morrison
Royal Lee Morrison, a former Davis High School educator and coach and former owner of the Davis Sport Shop, died in Polson, Mont., on June 25, 2004. He was 84.
Born Aug. 1, 1919, in Great Falls, Mont., to Roy and Beulah Morrison, he grew up and attended school in Fort Benton, Mont. He played football and attended Montana State University for one year, playing trumpet with his father at dances to earn money to get through school.
When he played for a dance in Portland, Ore., he ended up staying to play baseball in the Portland Minor League and attend school at Lewis & Clark College.
He enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a medic and served in the Pacific Theater during World War II. After the war, he returned to Fort Benton and started teaching and coaching.
He marriage Helen Jurenka on July 10, 1945, in Fort Benton. They moved to Dillon, where he coached basketball at Western College and earned his master's degree in education. They moved to Polson in 1946, where he coached football, track and basketball.
Later, he coached at Sentinel High School in Missoula, Mont., where he coached football, basketball and wrestling.
In 1960, he moved to Davis and was hired as a football coach. He also coached basketball, track and baseball, and was later hired as vice principal at Davis High School. In 1967, he retired from education and bought the Davis Sport Shop the following year. During that time he coached girls' basketball at UC Davis.
He sold the Sport Shop in 1980 and was always proud that three of his employees went on to professional sports.
He retired to Oroville and eventually moved back to Polson in 1983.
His family says he loved family, grandchildren, athletics and his cabin on the lake.
He is survived by his wife Helen of Polson; son, Greg Morrison and his wife Nancy of Moscow, Idaho; grandchildren, Tanner Tompkins, Connor Tompkins, Ryan Morrison and Tyler Morrison; and faithful dog Max.
A graveside memorial service was held July 2 at Lakeview Cemetery in Polson.
The family requests that memorials be sent to Glacier Bank in Polson, to establish a scholarship fund in his name.
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Steven Troy Morrison
Steven Troy Morrison passed away on April 30, 2003 in Vallejo, following surgery on April 14. Born Aug. 31, 1964 at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Steven was the youngest of eight children born to Donald and Florence Morrison.
At the time, the Morrisons lived in Winters while Donald was stationed at the old communication station that is now D-Q University. When Steven was 2 years old, they moved to Hayward, where he grew up.
Steven worked for Simonton Windows in Vacaville as a truck driver and moved back to Winters in November 2002.
He is survived by his wife Kelly, a son Tyler and a daughter Madeline; sisters and brothers-in-law Linda and Bill Sullivan of Winters, Jayne and Bill Hall of Ocean Shores, Washington, and Colleen and Jesus Arreola of Winters; brothers Jeff Morrison of Winters, Ross Morrison of Hayward, and Jack and Chuck Morrison of Modesto, nieces and nephew Casey, Rosanna and Melissa Morrison, Troy and Maureen Barnett, Todd and Kathy Barnett, Timothy and Esmeralda Barnett, Elissa and Travis Morrison, Ryan and Adam Hall and Vanessa Sale; great nephews Brendan Morrison, Evan and Aaron Barnett, and great nieces Lindsay Morrison and Gracieanne Barnett.
Steven was preceded in death by his parents.
Services were held at New Life Family Church on May 3. Memorial donations may be made to the Steven Morrison Memorial Fund at First Northern Bank.
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Harold Morrow
Harold Morrow of Dunnigan died at Woodland Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005 at age 60.
Mr. Morrow was born Sept. 17, 1945 in Colusa. He had been a Dunnigan area resident for his entire life. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and worked for ADM Rice Co. in Arbuckle.
Survivors include Mr. Morrow's wife of 36 years, Carol Morrow of Dunnigan; his daughter, Belinda Elias of Yuba City; his grandson, Hayden Elias; his mother, Thelma Morrow of Williams; and his sisters, Lenda Pecha and Arlene Gomez, both of Colusa. He was preceded in death by his father, Leonard Morrow and his brother, Tommy Morrow.
The family requests memorials in Mr. Morrow's name be directed to The American Cancer Society, 1765 Challenge Way, Suite 115, Sacramento, 95815.
Services: A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12 at the Presbyterian Church, Fourth and Jay, in Colusa. Holycross Memorial Services of Yuba City is assisting the family with arrangements.
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Milton J. Morse
Milton Joseph Morse died unexpectedly of a heart attack on June 10, 2001, just one week before his retirement as a teacher at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in Davis. The oldest of two children born to Milton Morse Sr. and Viola Morse in Sonora, he was 62.
He was raised in Richmond, where he received both his primary and secondary education. His undergraduate and graduate degrees were obtained from UC Berkeley, Cal State Sacramento and the University of New York, with his thesis research conducted in Madrid, Spain. As a high school student, he had a job selling maps door to door in Richmond. It was then that he met his high school sweetheart and later his wife of nearly 42 years.
Morse spent his entire 40-year teaching career in Davis. Teaching the young and the not-so-young was an unwavering passion that allowed him to touch many lives, both in the classroom and in his travels around the world, visiting old friends and meeting new ones. Believing that travel was one of the best ways to learn and to improve his abilities in the classroom, he was continually packing his well-worn suitcase and heading off with his family, his students and adult groups to various destinations in the United States, Latin America and Spain. Sadly, his next tour was to begin June 18, just a few days after his retirement.
He is survived by his wife, Marie; three sons, two daughters and 12 grandchildren. These include Michael Morse and his wife Susan of Dixon, and their children, Shannon, Jessica, Kaitlin and Rickey; Mark Morse and his wife Lisa of Roseville, and their children, Quinn, Max and Sage; Marty Morse and his wife Shelley of Davis, and their children, Cole and Kyle and Mindy Dufresne and her husband Mike of Davis, and their children Ashley and Audrey; and Michelle Morse of Woodland and her son, Brandon.
A memorial service celebrating his life will be held for the community on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 38141 Russell Blvd. A private service for the immediate family will precede the memorial service at the Davis Funeral Chapel.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be made payable to the Milton Morse Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 1914, Davis, CA 95617. The memorial fund will be used to aid the Davis Spanish Immersion program and to construct a memorial in Morse's honor at Cesar Chavez Elementary School.
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Bobbi Jean Mortensen
Bobbi Jean Mortensen, a longtime Davis resident, died Dec. 10, 2004, in Shingle Springs, where she resided for the past five years. She was 43.
A memorial service will begin at 2 p.m. on Tuesday at Davis Cemetery, 820 Pole Line Road.
Born Dec. 1, 1961, in Oakland to Paul and Viola Malliot, she graduated from Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Davis in June 1979.
Her family says she was very involved and interested in the traditions and beliefs of the Shingle Springs band of Miwok Indians. She participated in numerous community events on and off the reservation where she lived, including the tribes' annual Big Time and many trips to Chaw'se, a historical state park outside of Jackson.
She was fond of animals and was always taking in and caring for neighborhood strays. Her favorite pastimes included sewing and making Saturday morning breakfast with her 3-year-old grandson, Christopher.
She was preceded in death by her son, Justin Mortensen, who died in May 1999.
She is survived by her long-time boyfriend, Tony Olanio and the Olanio family of Shingle Springs; daughter Liana Drummond and her husband JR Drummond of Woodland; and grandson Christopher Drummond of Woodland.
She is further survived by her brother, Bill Barker of Washington; her sisters, Diana Einarson of Hawaii, Tina Klobucar of Oregon, Margee Hatton and Denise Halfacre, both of Davis; and many nieces, nephews and friends.
