Mrs. Jane Morris, 91, who lived in Coldwater with her son, Aubrey, suffered a heart attack Monday morning of this week.When her son, Aubrey, returned home at noon, he found his mother's body on the hot floor furnace register where she had fallen. Her arms and part of her body were badly burned but there was no evidence she had moved after having fallen.
Neighbors, a doctor and the ambulance were called, but apparently she had died instantly.
Funeral services were held in the Methodist church in this city Wednesday afternoon, December 10, with Rev. Dean W. Dryden and Wm. A. Hawes in charge. Mr. and Mrs. Gurney Hadley, accompanied by Donald Booth, sang, "In the Garden" and "No Night There."
Pallbearers were Cecil Wilson, John Kittell, George Deewall, L. Atteberry, Don Booth and Frank Meyer. Interment was in Crown Hill cemetery by the side of Mrs. Morris' husband, who died June 27, 1940.
Obituary Mrs. Jane H. Morris wa born July 7, 1867, in McKean County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Robert and Sarah McCarl Brown. She died December 8, 1958, in Coldwater at the age of 91 years, 5 months and 1 day.
Mrs. Morris' mother died when she was 12 years of age and she was reared by a maternal aunt and uncle. In 1885 they moved to a homestead near Ford, Kans., where she met William Meredith Morris, whom she married late in 1886. Mr. and Mrs. Morris lived for a few years in Baca county, Colorado, on a tree claim.
About 1889 they moved to the Great Bend-Ellinwood area, where they stayed until early in the year, 1898, when they moved to Kiowa, Kans., where Mr. Morris continued his trade as a blacksmith until 1910. At this time they moved to a farm south of Coldwater where they stayed until Mr. Morris died in 1940. During the time they lived in Kiowa Mrs. Morris joined the Methodist church.
Since the death of her husband Mrs. Jane Morris has resided in Coldwater.
Mrs. Morris had eight children. Three preceded her in death: a daughter Lillian Knecht and two sons, Clint and Jasper. She is survived by two daughters; Mrs. Edna Brown, Anchorage, Alaska, and Mrs. Belle Smith Wichita, Kansas; three sons, David and Aubrey Morris of Coldwater and Bill Morris of Wichita. She leaves 22 grandchildren and 40 great grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
"May I write, not an obituary for my grandmother, but an eulogy to her? God has been good to us as a family, having granted a long span of life to Jane Brown Morris so that she was able to bless her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. For this may we all be grateful this day. Through sorrow or joy we each know that she would stand and stand she did, even though we at times would fail her. It is a time of sadness today for us as we realize our loss, but as the days pass we know that which made us love her as a mother, a grandmother and a great grandmother will live within us. Her body will be gone, yes, but that which she gave to us will remain, and may each of us now breathe a little prayer that we may be worthy to some day again hear her say, "Come in, come in and sit down." -- Contributed.
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