Forrest Morrison Rites Monday
                                            
  Forrest Morrison, 44, young  farmer who lived  west of Sigourney, died  
  Saturday morning at 7:30 o'clock at the Sigourney hospital, where he had 
  been a  patient since  June  8, suffering  from  a heart  ailment. Mr.  
  Morrison had been in failing health since last March 22.
  
  He was born at Creston on April 24,  1905, and was a son of Edward and  
  Mary Etta Scott Morrison. When he was  about one year old he came with  
  his parents to Keokuk county and spent the rest of his life here.  
  
  On January 17, 1928, he  was married to Mary  Theresa Shannon and they  
  became the parents of six children. They started housekeeping on a farm 
  southeast of Keswick,  later moving to  the South  English and Webster  
  communities, before moving to the Sigourney community 10 years ago.
  
  Mr. Morrison was a member of St. Mary's church here.
  
  He is survived by  his wife: two  daughters, Lois and  Helen, and four  
  sons, Merle, Lyman, Gerald and James, all at home; three sisters, Mrs. 
  Will Wilkerson of North English, Mrs Glen Sarvis of Sigourney and Mrs. 
  Harold Franklin of  Iowa City,  and five  brothers, Ellis  of Keswick,  
  Edward of Spencer, Roscoe of Adel, Raymond of Millersburg and Elmer of 
  Sigourney. 
  
  The funeral service was held at Saint Mary's church Monday morning, in 
  charge of the Rev. James Mackin.  Burial was made at West cemetery.
  
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Re-typed by Lyman Morrison, 1994.
  
  
  
  
                        Mary Teresa Morrison Dies
                                            
  Mary Teresa Morrison, 86, of Sigourney died Sunday, April 12, 1992, at 
  Washington County hospital in Washington.
  
  She was born May 27, 1905, near Charlotte in Clinton county to John and 
  Teresa Farrell Shannon.  Her family lived  on a farm  near Hampton and  
  moved to Keota where she graduated from St. Mary's High School in Keota 
  in 1924. She married Forrest Morrison on January 17, 1928, in Keswick. 
  he died June 25, 1949. She and  her husband farmed near Keswick before  
  moving to Sigourney in 1939.  She was a member  of St. Mary's Catholic  
  church in Sigourney and Altar and Rosary Society.
  
  She is survived by four sons, Merle  of Sigourney, Lyman of Riverside, 
  Calif., Gerald  of St.  Louis, Mo.,  and James  of Geneseo,  Ill.; two  
  daughters Lois Scurlock of Melcher and Helen Nicklaus of Lone Tree; 33 
  grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren  and a sister,  Regina Smith of  
  Sigourney.
  
  She was  preceded in  death by  her  parents; five  grandchildren; four  
  brothers, Allie,  William, Joseph  and  Urban; and  a  sister, Loretta  
  Flander.
  
  Funeral services are today (Wednesday) at St. Mary's Catholic Church in 
  Sigourney at 10:30 a.m. the Rev. Ernest Braida officiating. Burial will 
  be in  Pleasant Grove  Cemetery in  Sigourney. Pallbearers  are Leland  
  Morrison, Doug Morrison, Mike Morrison, Robert Morrison, David Nicklaus 
  and Dennis Nicklaus.
  
  Memorials have been established.
  
  Holm Funeral Home of Sigourney is in charge of arrangements.
  
Publication unknown.
Re-typed by Lyman Morrison, 1994.