Obit Cherokee Co. Archives for:
Name: Theo Franklin "Bud" Morris
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Submitted by: Kay Hubbard Thompson
Email: katiewho@intellex.com 
Date: 3/23/2002
to the Cherokee Co., OK Archives site
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cherokee/cherokee.html
Bill Cook, Cherokee Co. Archivist, wcook14024@aol.com
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TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS
TAHLEQUAH, OK
MARCH 22, 2002

THEO FRANKLIN "BUD" MORRIS
     Tahlequah-Funeral services for Theo Franklin "Bud" Morris, 80, of 
Tahlequah will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, 2003 at the Reed-Culver 
Funeral Home with Rev. Jim Campbell officiating.  Burial with military honors 
will follow at the Tahlequah City Cemetery.  Services are under the direction 
of the Reed-Culver Funeral Home.  Visitation will be 12 to 9 p.m. Saturday, 
1-9 Sunday, and 9a.m.-9 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
     Pallbearers include Ken Johnson, Les Kelley, Mark Schultz, Richard 
Bertelle, Jack Reavis and Tommy Hix.  Honary pallbearers  are Joe Suess, 
John Cooper, Joe Scrivner and Stan Farabee.
     Theo Franklin "Bud" Morris was born Feb. 7, 1922 in Kingfisher, the 
son Amos Augustus and Bonnie Jessie (Evans) Morris and passed from this 
life on March 18, 2002 in Medesto, Calif.
     Bud grew up in Calumet and moved to Inola when he was 15.  
He served in the U.S. Army and the Merchant Marines during World War II.
     Bud was married to Reba Nila Wade Nov. 10, 1956.  They lived in Los 
Angeles, Calif., where Bud worked in construction.  
They moved to Tahlequah in 1974.  
Bud worked for the City of Tahlequah Street Department, retiring in 1988.  
He attended the Grace Baptist Church.
     Bud was preceded in death by his parents; his wife Reba, in 1995; and 
his brother Clyde Morris.
     He is survived by his sister, Audrea Ford of Ceres, Calif.; and his 
brother Cecil Morris of Modesto, CAlif.
     Memorial contributions may be made to AA or Al-Anon, 812 Ward St., 
Tahlequah, OK.
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