Ionia-Montcalm County MI Archives Obituaries.....Morris, Virgil Wayne 2006
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The Greenville Daily News, Saturday, July 1, 2006


Virgil Wayne Morris, 80, of Orleans, passed away Thursday, June 29, 2006.  
Virgil was born July 3, 1925 at the family home in rural Fenwick.  He was the 
13th of 17 children born to Wilmer C. and Grace Baker Morris.

He attended Barnes School and Sheridan High School.  Wayne was mechanically 
gifted and served his family, friends and neighbors by fixing their lawnmowers, 
rototillers, yard tractors and chain saws.  He loved to fish.  Wayne served 
with the Navy Seabees, the 93rd NCB.  He was stationed at Samor Island station 
in the Philippines and was discharged on April 8, 1946, from Great Lakes Naval 
Station.  He was a life member of Sheridan VFW Post 5065.  Wayne served on the 
board of Shiloh School and also on the board of Shiloh Community Church in 
Orleans.  He worked as a milk hauler, factory worker, semi driver for 
Associated Truck Lines and the Department of Corrections.  He retired from 
Riverside Correctional Facility after 32 years of service in the Ionia prison 
system.  After his retirement, Wayne and Marian built a small vacation home at 
Lake Como in Florida, where they greatly enjoyed 25 winters.

He was preceded in death by his parents; four brothers, Homer, Orval, Claire 
and Hartley; and four sisters, Esther Wilson, Elsie Reed, Gladys Blumenstein, 
Laura “Dora” Parks.  He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Marian Haynor 
Morris, who he married April 8, 1944; their three children, Cheryl and Herb 
Haines of rural Lowell, David LaVern Morris of rural Orleans, Kathriann 
Petersen of rural Greenville; seven grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; 
four brothers, Earle, Wilmer, Fred and Robert; four sisters, Inez Walsh, 
Phyllis Stearns, Alice Child, Caroline Sage; and many, many nieces and nephews.

Funeral services are 11 a.m. Monday at Shiloh Community Church, Orleans, with 
Pastor Ken Harger officiating.  Visitation is from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. 
Sunday at the church.  Memorials may be given to Ionia Area Hospice or Shiloh 
Community Church.  Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Johnson-
Feuerstein Funeral Home, Belding.



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