Mary Ellen Morris

Mrs. Morris Dies Here...Was Pioneer -- Mrs. Mary Ellen Morris, a resident of Douglas since 1904, died at her residence, 1525 Pan American Avenue, yesterday at 1 p.m. She was born in Utah April 8, 1869, and came to Springerville, Arizona, in 1885. She moved to Bisbee in 1900 and four years later came to Douglas. Her husband, Daniel Porter Morris, died in 1941. Survivors include two sons, D.F. Morris of Patagonia and Earl Morris, Ojai, California; three brothers John, Ben and Henry Morris, all of Mesa; a sister, Mrs. Elsie Plumb of Chandler; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 4 p.m. Saturday at Brown-Page chapel. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Pallbearers are R.W. McGinty, B.L. Olson, Tom Watson, Frank Beecroft and W.M. Foster.

Published December 27, 1951, in the Douglas Dispatch, Douglas, Arizona.

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