MORRIS, Dorothy Jean (Dot)

The White Mountain Independent, Show Low, Arizona ~ January 25, 2011 Dorothy Jean Morris, 76, died Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, in Oro Valley. She was born Dec. 26, 1934, in Reno, Nev. to the late William Merrill and Dorothy Agnes Burns. She attended St. Thomas Catholic grade school and Bishop Manogue High School. She transferred to and graduated from Reno High School in 1952. Dorothy attended the University of Nevada Reno and graduated from Reno Business School. It was at a high school dance that she met George S. Morris, her future husband. They were married on May 11, 1956, at Trinity Episcopal Church in Reno, Nev. and have celebrated 54 years of marriage. Dorothy Jean, or Dot to her friends, worked as an executive secretary for the Internal Revenue Service, on the Marine Corps Base where George was stationed, on several Naval Air Stations where George was in training, and as George's partner in Town and Ranch Realty. She travelled extensively with her husband and they made their home in numerous locations including Florida, Hawaii, Texas, California, Nevada, Berlin, West Germany and Arizona. Dot was a member of Daughters of the Nile Ammon-Ra Temple and Sierra Silver Wheels Trailer Club. She enjoyed spending time with family, camping, traveling in their Motor Home, cooking, dancing and golfing. She is most remembered for her devotion to her family and the deep care, concern and kindness she gave to others. Surviving are her loving husband, George S. Morris; daughters: Kim Hardy and Torrey Nelson; three grandchildren: Taylor Hardy, Brandon Nelson and Corey Nelson; and two sons-in-law, David Hardy and Forrest Nelson all of Las Vegas, Nev., and numerous family and friends. Services will be held St. Philip's in the Hills Episcopal Church at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26, at 4440 N. Campbell Ave, Tucson, AZ 85718. For information, call Vistoso Funeral Home at (520) 544-2285 or visit the online guestbook at www.vistosofuneralhome.com John 14 Verses 1 - 4 Let not your hearts be troubled: believe in God, believe also in Me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I will come again and will take you with Me. That where I am, you may be also. And you know the way where I am going. Psalms 46 Verses 1-3 God is our shelter and strength, Always ready to help in times of trouble. So we will not be afraid, even if the earth is shaken And mountains fall into the ocean depths; Even if the seas roar and rage And the hills are shaken by the violence, God is with me. Poem - Author Unknown I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one. I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I'd like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I'd like the tears of those who grieve to dry before the sun Of happy memories that I leave when life here is done.