Washington-Treutlen County GaArchives Obituaries.....Morris, Dennis February 29, 1990
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The Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 1990
                Dennis Morris, Lifelong Railraod Worker
 Dennis Morris worked for railroads for 60 years.
 His first railroad job was in Georgia where he was a telegraph operator.
 After telegraph systems in that area were automated, Mr. Morris looked for a 
railroad job with more security.
 In the early 1930s, Mr. Morris found employment with the Baltimore and Ohio 
railroad in Tipp City, O as a telegraph operator and station agent.
 Handling tickets and dealing with passengers and freight were challenges for 
Mr. Morris.
 But better railroad jobs were available in Northern Ohio. In 1937 he came to 
greater Cleveland to work for the Nickel Plate Road as a telegraph operator and 
the station agent for Avon, then Bay Village, and finally Rocky River.
 The telegraph operations involved sending and receiving messages to and from 
trains and other station.
 Soon, Mr. Morris was in communications as a hobby. He became a ham radio 
operator.
 He stayed with Nickel Plate through its merger with Norfolk & Western Railway 
in 1964, then retired three years later.
 People in the western suburbs knew Mr. Morris from the train ticket booths he 
manned and for his blueberries.
 He grew and sold blueberries on his property along Dover Center Rd. in 
Westlake. Neighbors called him the berry man.
 Mr. Morris, 94, died Monday at Olmsted Manor Skilled Nursing Center in North 
Olmsted of Cancer.
 He was born in Harrison, Georgia, attended school through the eighth grade, 
then farmed near his home, and started working on the railroad as a youth.
 Mr. Morris is survived by a daughter, Mary Lou Akins of Denver; a son, McAdoo 
of Westlake; nine grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-
grandchildren.
 Services for Mr. Morris will be at 11AM today at Jenkins Funeral Home, 2914 
Dover Center Rd., Westlake.


Additional Comments:
Dennis was born 6 Feb 1896. His wife was Bertha Amylou Sammons Morris. They are 
both buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Westlake, Ohio.

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