OBIT: Helen (WOOD) MORRIS, 1943, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MRS. HELEN WOOD MORRIS

Of 1515 Twenty-second avenue, wife of Lieutenant Colonel Lloyd M. 
Morris of Camp Lee, Va., died at 12.15 this morning at the Altoona 
hospital where she had been a patient for the past three months.  She 
was born at Rogersville, Greene county, on Oct. 26, 1894, a daughter of 
Ezra and Agnes Wood, and married Mr. Morris at Pittsburgh on Sept. 7, 
1921.  Mrs. Morris was a graduate of Indiana State Teachers college and 
taught in the Pittsburgh area prior to her marriage.  From 1921 until 
1924, Mr. and Mrs. Morris resided at State College where Mr. Morris was 
a professor in the engineering school, coming to Altoona then as a test 
engineer at the railroad test department building.  Mrs. Morris was a 
member of the Presbyterian church, the Order of Eastern Star and the 
American Legion auxiliary of Charles R. Rowan post, No. 228.  Surviving 
are her husband, her mother and a niece, Miss Louise Wood, both of whom 
reside at the Morris home, and two brothers, Gail and Floren Wood, both 
of Greene county.  Friends will be received at the Laughlin funeral 
home after 7 o'clock this evening.

MORRIS - Brief funeral services for Mrs. Helen (Wood) Morris will be 
conducted Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock at the home, 1515 Twenty-
second avenue, in charge of Rev. Walter L. Ritter.  Private interment 
will be made Thursday at Rogersville, Pa.  Friends will be received at 
the home after 7 o'clock this evening.

Altoona Mirror, June 15, 1943