Obituary - Garland Morrison

Garland Morrison, 87, Drexel, Missouri died Friday, September 2, 2011 at Beautiful Savior Home in Belton, Missouri. Funeral services will be 2:00pm Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at the Atkinson Chapel in Harrisonville, Missouri. The family will receive friends 1:00-2:00pm Wednesday at the chapel. Burial in Freeman Cemetery, Freeman, Missouri. Contributions to the American Cancer Society.

Garland was born June 23, 1924 in Lisle, Missouri, a son of Louis and Clara Evelyn (Tribby) Morrison. He grew up in the Lisle Community, attended the Calvert Rural School and graduated from Drexel High School. Garland was inducted into the Army in 1944 and received wounds while in action during the Asiatic Pacific Campaign in April of 1945. He spent ten months recovering in a military hospital and was discharged in February 1946. He was united in marriage to Maxine McBride on December 31, 1945 in Paola, Kansas. They moved to Kansas City in 1946, where Garland started working as a stock clerk for the Montgomery Ward Warehouse. He worked for Montgomery Ward 38 1/2 years before retiring in 1985. They moved back to the Drexel area in 1993. Garland was a member of VFW Post 302 in Kansas City and a member of the South Fork Baptist Church in Drexel.

Garland was preceded in death by his parents, his grandmother, Sallie Morrison, who raised him after the death of his parents, and his aunt Edith Schmoll. He is survived by his wife, Maxine Darr, of the home; a daughter, Cheryl Dyer, and her husband Jack, Raytown, Missouri; cousins, Evelyn Livingston, Marilyn Walters, and Morris Schmoll, other relatives and friends.