Obit for Morris, Byron Ward - Grady County OK

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Byron Ward Morris

TUTTLE, Okla. - Byron Ward Morris, 83, died Tuesday, March 3, 1998.

Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. today in Resthaven Memory Gardens at 
Oklahoma City. Arrangements are by Bill Merritt South Funeral Service of 
Oklahoma City.

Mr. Morris was born in Howe, Texas. He was inducted into the Army Air 
Corps in 1941. He received training in the United States and served with 
the 20th Bomb Command. He was honorably discharged in 1944 at the rank of 
master sergeant.

He married Virginia Carter in 1943 at Great Bend, Kan. They moved from 
Kansas in 1945 to Oklahoma City, where he took a job at Tinker Air Force 
Base. He retired from there in 1972.

In 1954, they moved to a farm in Tuttle. His wife preceded him in death.

Mr. Morris was an attorney and a municipal judge.

Survivors include two daughters, Mary Ann Williams of Oklahoma City and 
Virginia Fitzgerald of Amarillo; four sons, Richard K. Morris of Jenks, 
Byron Eugene Morris of Midwest City and Donald Lee Morris and Tommy Ray 
Morris, both of Oklahoma City; two brothers; four sisters; 19 
grandchildren; and 13 greatgrandchildren.

Amarillo Globe-News, 6 Mar 1998
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