Mahoning County OhArchives Obituaries.....Morris, Robert Hugh 1945
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Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 4 Mar 1945
MORRIS, Robert Hugh 
[Husband of Virginia nee Hall]
1 July 1917 to 1945
28y 
LIEUT. MORRIS GIVES LIFE
First Lieut. Robert Hugh Morris, 27, was killed in action in Germany April 
9th, his wife, Mrs. Virginia H. Morris, was advised by the War Department 
Saturday. Overseas since last July, Lieut. Morris was attached to Headquarters 
of the 9th Armored Division. During the German counter-offensive last 
December, his outfit was one of those which were completely surrounded in 
Bastogne and kept under enemy fire for six days, suffering heavy casualties 
before help arrived and the Germans driven off. In March the Ninth Armored, 
then with the First U.S. Army, captured the railroad bridge at Remagen and was 
first to cross the Rhine river. Since that time he had been doing observation 
flying over Germany. Details of his death are lacking.
Bob was born in Canfield, July 1, 1917, the only child of Mrs. Jennie Van 
Fossan Morris and the late Frank A. Morris, and after his graduation from 
Canfield high school in 1935, entered Ohio State University at Columbus, where 
he studied for five years, receiving his Bachelor of Science and Pharmacology 
degrees. While attending Oho State he enrolled in the Reserve Officers 
Training Corps, receiving a commission as second lieutenant in May, 1939.
On June 26, 1939, he was united in marriage with Miss Virginia Hall of Girard, 
and after being employed in Columbus for a time, returned to Canfield Oct.1, 
1941, and took over the drug business which his late father had established. 
In 1942, he was stationed with the Field Artillery at Fort Bragg, N.C., and 
Fort Sill, Okla. When the 9th Armored Division was activated he was 
transferred to Camp Funston, Kas., and after several months on desert 
maneuvers in California, went overseas from Camp Polk, La.
He was a member of the Canfield Presbyterian church and Phi Rho Alpha and Phi 
Delta Chi fraternities.
Surviving are his wife, who has carried on the business in his absence, and 
his mother. 
The entire community extends deepest sympathy.
Lieut. Morris is the fifteenth Canfield man to give his life in service of his 
country during World War II

Burial - Lt. Robert H. Morris is buried in Row 6 Section C of the Canfield 
Village Cemetery, alongside his parents. 

Bob Neff says of his close boyhood friend, “Never found - never returned - 
Never forgotten.”




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