Carol Morrison

Carol and her identical twin Merrilyn were the first children of Ralph W. Evans and Anna Lewis Evans. They were born in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 17, 1926. They loved school, sports and the out-of-doors. Many happy hours were spent reading, bike riding, hiking, swimming, playing tennis, cooking sewing gardening. The family loved any sport using a ball!

The twins loved to sew. Carol made her first dress at the age of nine and continued to enjoy swing for years and years, sewing for family members friends as well as herself.

After graduating from East High and the University of Utah, Carol and Merrilyn both taught third grade in Jordan District Schools and Salt Lake City Schools. They had fun exchanging classes each year to fool their students and fellow teachers.

Carol married Richard Lee Morrison on May 3, 1950 in the Salt Lake Temple. Lee, a son of Richard Whithead Morrison and Celia Wolley Morrison, was born March 15, 1925 in Salt Lake City. He served in the U.S. Navy as a radio technician, filled a mission to the North Central States and graduated from the University of Utah as a civil engineer. Since 1956, he has worked for the Bureau of Reclamation having worked previously for the Utah State Road Commission for five years.

Carol and Lee have held many positions in the church and civic organizations. They have five children and eleven grandchildren and live at 2540 Evergreen Avenue in Salt Lake City.

OBITUARY:

Carol Evans Morrison

Carol Evans Morrison 1926 ~ 2007 Carol Evans Morrison, 81, passed away peacefully at her home on Oct. 29, 2007. She was born in Salt Lake City on June 17, 1926 along with her twin sister Merrilyn to Anna Martha Lewis and Ralph Waldo Evans. Carol graduated from East High School in Salt Lake City in 1943 and from the University of Utah in 1947 with a degree in Elementary Education. After teaching 3rd grade for three years, she married Richard Lee Morrison in the Salt Lake Temple on May 3, 1950. They lived in Salt Lake City until 1961 when they moved to East Mill Creek. Carol devoted her life to raising her five children, caring for her husband, and helping others. Her faithful service in the church included her callings as Primary president, Primary teacher, member of the Relief Society stake board and many years teaching the Literature Lessons in Relief Society. She loved her Visiting Teaching group and looked forward to their get-togethers. Carol loved sewing for others, teaching school, riding her bicycle around the neighborhood, sharing fruit and vegetables, creating treasure hunts, dress-ups in the "big room", watching children play, sharing her family history, and taking just one more photograph in case the first one didn't turn out. Survived by her husband, five children, Kent (Estelle Basor), San Luis Obispo; Elaine (Richard) Henriksen, Dick (Laurlee Leavitt), Annette (Robert) Otteson, Houston and Ralph (Dian Cannon), 14 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, brother Ralph W. Evans Jr. and sister Diane Aurich. Preceded in death by her parents and sisters Merrilyn Walker, Joan Evans, Gaye Stebbing and Marie Evans. Thank you to family, friends and hospice who generously helped with her care. Funeral services will be held Mon. November 5th, at 12 noon in the East Mill Creek First Ward Chapel, 2702 East Evergreen Avenue (3435 South) in Salt Lake City. Friends and family may call Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Holbrook Mortuary, 3251 S. 2300 E., also Monday from 10:45-11:45 a.m. at the church prior to services. Interment will be in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.holbrookmortuary.com

Published in the Deseret News from 11/2/2007 - 11/3/2007.