E. E. Morrison
                         Dies Aug. 20
  
  Edward E. (Pete) Morrison,  age 69, of  Spencer, died in a  
  Spencer hospital August 20.
  
  He was  born October  29, 1908,  to  Edward and  Mary Etta  
  Morrison at Keswick. He graduated from Keswick High School  
  and Iowa  State University  at Ames.  He taught  school in  
  Kinross, Hartford, South Dakota and Whiting and then became 
  an extension director and real estate agent. He married Ada 
  Mains of Sioux Falls, S. D., June 4, 1931.  
  
  Survivors include  his wife,  Ada;  two daughters,  Jo Ann  
  Carey of El Cajon, Ca., and Gertrude Heiman of Northridge,  
  Ca. one son  Edward Earl Jr.  of El Cajon,  Ca.; six grand  
  children; four brothers,  Ellis of Keswick,  Roscoe of Des  
  Moines, Elmer of Sigourney and Raymond of North English and 
  two sisters, Mrs. Clem (Ruth) Seiwert of Sigourney and Mary 
  Ferne Franklin of Iowa  City. He was  preceded in death by  
  two brothers  Forrest and  Orville  and one  sister Hattie  
  Wilkerson.
  
  Funeral services  were  held at  the  First Congregational  
  Church in  Spencer  August  23  with  burial  at Riverside  
  Cemetery at Spencer.
    
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Re-typed by Lyman Morrison, 1994.
  
  
                         Obituary of 
                 Edward Earl "Pete" Morrison
  
                                     
  Edward Earl Morrison was  born October 29,  l908 in Keokuk  
  County, Iowa to Ed and Mary Etta Scott Morrison. The family 
  lived in the Keswick  community and it  was there that Mr.  
  Morrison, known familiarly as Pete, received his elementary 
  and high school education. He then attended Iowa State and  
  following graduation  became  a  Smith-Hughes  Agriculture  
  teacher at  Hartford, South  Dakota. On  June 4,  1931, he  
  married Ada  Minnie  Main and  continued  his  teaching at  
  Whiting, Iowa.
    Pete was a County Extension Director serving Monona County 
  for 2 years, Clay County for 10 years and Polk  County for 2 
  years. In 1949 Pete returned to Spencer where he became a G. 
  I. instructor of Agriculture. Pete was active in farm 
  management. He held an Iowa Real Estate Broker's license and 
  was a land appraiser.
   Pete considered his most important service to be his 
  helping to organize the Rural Electrical Association in both 
  Monona and Clay Counties. In 1963, he received a 25 year 
  service award from the National Farm Institute. He was 
  listed in The Agricultural Personalities of the West and 
  Midwest in 1971.
   (Died August 20, 1978) 
  
  Services in First Congregational Church, Spencer, Iowa. 
  Interment Riverside Cemetery, Spencer, Iowa
  
Publication unknown.
Re-typed by Lyman Morrison, 1994.