Cornelia (Ellinwood) Morris |
| Posted 2017-08-22 by Pat R |
| Daily Star (Tucson, Arizona) Tuesday, May 22, 1973 Services Set In Globe For Cornelia Morris Globe--Funeral services for Cornelia Ellinwood Morris, 81, a campaigner for higher education in Arizona along with her husband, the late Samuel H. Morris, will be conducted at 2 p.m. today in St. John's Episcopal church here. Burial will be in the family plot in Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson. Mrs. Morris died in a Phoenix hospital on May 17. Her husband died in 1967. Mrs. Morris was born in Flagstaff, the daughter of Everett E. and Minnie Walkley Ellinwood. She attended elementary schools at Flagstaff and Prescott and at Troop Polytechnic at Pasadena, Calif. She entered Smith College in 1910 and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1914. She married Samuel Morris on Jan. 30, 1918, and they established their home in Globe that year. Active in community affairs, she was one of the organizers of the Woman's Club in Globe in 1919. She served as the group's first vice president and its second president. She was elected president a second time in 1951. She served as chairman of the board of directors of the Old Dominion Library, a community project of the Globe club. Prominent in St. John's Church, she was a member of the vestry and served three years as president of the St. John's Guild. She was president of the church auxiliary from 1942 to 1946 and was elected to the national executive board of the church in 1946. Also in that year she was elected to a key post in the church's Eighth Province and served in that capacity until 1949. During World War I she headed the sewing program of the production service in the Gila County chapter of the American Red Cross and in World War II she was chairman of the woman's division of the Globe Civil Defense organization. When her husband was serving on the Arizona Board of Regents she joined him in working to get the medical school at the University of Arizona and for higher education in the state. She was a member of the Arizona Federation of Woman's Clubs, the American Assn. of University Women and the Business and Professional Woman's Club of Globe. She is survived by her sister-in-law, Mrs. R. E. Ellinwood of Tucson, two nephews, Thomas of Gage, N.M., and John Ellinwood of Phoenix. See Also: Find A Grave |
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