Joan Elizabeth Morris
March 30, 1927 – January 22, 2010
Joan Elizabeth VanTilburg was born to Curtis and Fern VanTilburg in Mansfield, Ohio. She attended Bowling Green State University for two years then moved to Houston, Texas, where she met her future husband, Clyde "Bud" Morris.
They married in 1950 and returned to Ohio where they lived near Akron until \987 when they moved to Lillian, Alabama. Once in the sunny South, oan became very active in Foley Women’ Club, Friends of the Foley Public Library and the Blue Ribbon Team at South Baldwin Chamber of Commerce. She loved living in the country with her horses, dogs and cats.
She leaves to remember her with love: son Gary Morris of Houston, Texas; daughter Ann and husband Glenn Miner of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; granddaughters Erin and Jane Miner; sister and brother-in-law Margaret and Robert Scott of Perdido Beach; nieces Susan Scott Teare )Pensacola(, Kathy Scott Richardson )Tallahassee(, Joann Scott Milford )Tallahassee( and their families. Memorial offerings may be made to Odyssey Health Care in Daphne, American Cancer Society, or Lillian United Methodist Church.
"The way to Heaven is on horseback."
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Services were Saturday, January 30.2010 at Lillian United Methodist Church with the Rev. Dr. James A. Belcher, pastor, officiating.
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