Onslow-Newhanover County NcArchives Obituaries.....Morton, Robert G March 1, 1948
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Wilmington Morning Star 03/02/1948
ROBERT G. MORTON

Robert G. Morton, 39 safety engineer with the U.S. Corps of 
Engineers, stationed at Fort Bragg, died yesterday morning at 
Bulluck's Clinic.  He was stricken with a heart attack at 11 
p.m. Sunday.

Mr. Morton, brother of the late Gilbert F. Morton, city 
building inspector who died here about a month ago, was the son 
of C.E. and the late Mrs. Nettie F. Morton of Wilmington.  His 
widow, Mrs. Bess Orrell Morton; their son, Robert G. Morton, 
Jr.; and a daughter, Elizabeth Hayes Morton, who resides in 
Piney Woods.

Mr. Morton had been employed by the U.S. Engineers as safety 
engineer for the past five years.

Funeral services will be conducted from the chapel of Andrews 
Mortuary this afternoon at 3 o'clock with the Rev. J. A. 
Nielson officiating, assisted by the Rev. T.H. King.  Interment 
will follow in Oakdale cemetery.

Pallbearers will be, honorary: P.M. Snell, W.B. Baldwin, Brooks 
Long, LeRoy Halbrook, J. Harrell Grimes, Robert E. Suggs, Dr. 
E.C. Anderson, Dr. W.C. Mebane, Lee Porter, John Donnelly, 
James Donnelly, R.D. Cronly,Jr., Addison Hewlett,Sr., J.A. 
Orrell, Abraham Solomon, Albert Solomon, Roger W. Hewlett, 
Addison Hewlett,Jr., John T. Butters, L. H. Waters,Sr., 
active: Leon Hall, George Tienken, R.H. Stanley, R.M. Waldorf, 
Otto Edwards, and Gillium Anderson.

Additional Comments:
Robert Glenn Morton, son of Charles Edward Morton and Nettie May Freeman 
Morton, originally of Onslow County. Also survived by his first child, Yvonne 
Morton, of Onslow County. Both brothers were stricken with heart attacks in 
February of 1948 and died about three weeks apart.  Their mother had died just 
a few months prior at the end of November 1947.

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