St. Petersburg Times (FL) - November 1, 1988
Deceased Name: Katharine Morris, was a prisoner of war
ST. PETERSBURG - Katharine Elizabeth Schroeder Morris, 79, who was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for three years, died Saturday (Oct. 29, 1988) at her home. She was 79.
When World War II began, she was living in Manila, Philippines, with her infant son, Scott, and 3-year-old daughter, Mary Ann, while her husband, George, was working with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USCGS) for the 16th Naval District in Corregidor.
Her husband was taken prisoner soon after the war began, and she was seized with her children in Manila as a civilian prisoner until American troops recaptured the Philippines.
But the Japanese didn't intern her right away.
''Because my son was only 5 weeks old, they let me stay out of prison camp for awhile,'' Mrs. Morris recalled in a 1973 interview. ''But when my youngest was a year old, they put me in Santo Tomas (St. Thomas University) with the children. They never separated us. The Japanese love children.''
After the war, the family was reunited in Washington, D.C., and moved to the Tampa Bay area, where her husband was head of the USCGS office in Tampa until 1948. Then came several new assignments, including one to Liberia, before the family settled down in 1954 in St. Petersburg. Her husband was assigned to the vessel Hydrographer in Bayboro Harbor until his retirement.
Mrs. Morris was a member of the First Christian Church of Tampa and a volunteer worker at the Veterans Administration Medical Center at Bay Pines.
She was born in Washington, D.C., and received a bachelor of science degree from Longwood College in Farmville, Va., and a master of arts from George Washington University.
She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, United States Daughters of the War of 1812, the Dames of the Court of Honor, Colonial Dames of the 17th Century, National Society of Huguenots, Florida branch of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of the American Ex-Prisoners of War, Maryland Historical Society, Pennsylvania German Society, York County Historical Society, National Genealogical Society, the Hanover, Pa., Historical Society and P i Gamma Mu.
Survivors include her husband, retired Cmdr. George Edward Morris Jr.; a daughter, Mary Ann Newlon, St. Petersburg; a son, Scott Schroeder Morris, Oklahoma City; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Friends may call today from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Kenfield-Woodlawn Funeral Home, 200 Pasadena Ave. S. The funeral will be at noon Wednesday at the funeral home, with Canon Walter P. Plumley officiating. Burial will be in the Florida National Cemetery at Bushnell.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the Americanism Committee, Liberty Bell Fund, SAR, 1000 S Fourth St., Louisville, Ky. 40203.
- Some of the information in this obituary came from stories by Jay Horning and George Bartlett in the St. Petersburg Times and from stories in the Evening Independent.
Deceased Name: Katharine Morris, was a prisoner of war
ST. PETERSBURG - Katharine Elizabeth Schroeder Morris, 79, who was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for three years, died Saturday (Oct. 29, 1988) at her home. She was 79.
When World War II began, she was living in Manila, Philippines, with her infant son, Scott, and 3-year-old daughter, Mary Ann, while her husband, George, was working with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USCGS) for the 16th Naval District in Corregidor.
Her husband was taken prisoner soon after the war began, and she was seized with her children in Manila as a civilian prisoner until American troops recaptured the Philippines.
But the Japanese didn't intern her right away.
''Because my son was only 5 weeks old, they let me stay out of prison camp for awhile,'' Mrs. Morris recalled in a 1973 interview. ''But when my youngest was a year old, they put me in Santo Tomas (St. Thomas University) with the children. They never separated us. The Japanese love children.''
After the war, the family was reunited in Washington, D.C., and moved to the Tampa Bay area, where her husband was head of the USCGS office in Tampa until 1948. Then came several new assignments, including one to Liberia, before the family settled down in 1954 in St. Petersburg. Her husband was assigned to the vessel Hydrographer in Bayboro Harbor until his retirement.
Mrs. Morris was a member of the First Christian Church of Tampa and a volunteer worker at the Veterans Administration Medical Center at Bay Pines.
She was born in Washington, D.C., and received a bachelor of science degree from Longwood College in Farmville, Va., and a master of arts from George Washington University.
She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, United States Daughters of the War of 1812, the Dames of the Court of Honor, Colonial Dames of the 17th Century, National Society of Huguenots, Florida branch of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of the American Ex-Prisoners of War, Maryland Historical Society, Pennsylvania German Society, York County Historical Society, National Genealogical Society, the Hanover, Pa., Historical Society and P i Gamma Mu.
Survivors include her husband, retired Cmdr. George Edward Morris Jr.; a daughter, Mary Ann Newlon, St. Petersburg; a son, Scott Schroeder Morris, Oklahoma City; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Friends may call today from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Kenfield-Woodlawn Funeral Home, 200 Pasadena Ave. S. The funeral will be at noon Wednesday at the funeral home, with Canon Walter P. Plumley officiating. Burial will be in the Florida National Cemetery at Bushnell.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the Americanism Committee, Liberty Bell Fund, SAR, 1000 S Fourth St., Louisville, Ky. 40203.
- Some of the information in this obituary came from stories by Jay Horning and George Bartlett in the St. Petersburg Times and from stories in the Evening Independent.
St. Petersburg Times (FL) - November 1, 1988
Deceased Name: Katharine Morris, was a prisoner of war
ST. PETERSBURG - Katharine Elizabeth Schroeder Morris, 79, who was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for three years, died Saturday (Oct. 29, 1988) at her home. She was 79.
When World War II began, she was living in Manila, Philippines, with her infant son, Scott, and 3-year-old daughter, Mary Ann, while her husband, George, was working with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USCGS) for the 16th Naval District in Corregidor.
Her husband was taken prisoner soon after the war began, and she was seized with her children in Manila as a civilian prisoner until American troops recaptured the Philippines.
But the Japanese didn't intern her right away.
''Because my son was only 5 weeks old, they let me stay out of prison camp for awhile,'' Mrs. Morris recalled in a 1973 interview. ''But when my youngest was a year old, they put me in Santo Tomas (St. Thomas University) with the children. They never separated us. The Japanese love children.''
After the war, the family was reunited in Washington, D.C., and moved to the Tampa Bay area, where her husband was head of the USCGS office in Tampa until 1948. Then came several new assignments, including one to Liberia, before the family settled down in 1954 in St. Petersburg. Her husband was assigned to the vessel Hydrographer in Bayboro Harbor until his retirement.
Mrs. Morris was a member of the First Christian Church of Tampa and a volunteer worker at the Veterans Administration Medical Center at Bay Pines.
She was born in Washington, D.C., and received a bachelor of science degree from Longwood College in Farmville, Va., and a master of arts from George Washington University.
She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, United States Daughters of the War of 1812, the Dames of the Court of Honor, Colonial Dames of the 17th Century, National Society of Huguenots, Florida branch of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of the American Ex-Prisoners of War, Maryland Historical Society, Pennsylvania German Society, York County Historical Society, National Genealogical Society, the Hanover, Pa., Historical Society and P i Gamma Mu.
Survivors include her husband, retired Cmdr. George Edward Morris Jr.; a daughter, Mary Ann Newlon, St. Petersburg; a son, Scott Schroeder Morris, Oklahoma City; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Friends may call today from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Kenfield-Woodlawn Funeral Home, 200 Pasadena Ave. S. The funeral will be at noon Wednesday at the funeral home, with Canon Walter P. Plumley officiating. Burial will be in the Florida National Cemetery at Bushnell.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the Americanism Committee, Liberty Bell Fund, SAR, 1000 S Fourth St., Louisville, Ky. 40203.
- Some of the information in this obituary came from stories by Jay Horning and George Bartlett in the St. Petersburg Times and from stories in the Evening Independent.
Deceased Name: Katharine Morris, was a prisoner of war
ST. PETERSBURG - Katharine Elizabeth Schroeder Morris, 79, who was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for three years, died Saturday (Oct. 29, 1988) at her home. She was 79.
When World War II began, she was living in Manila, Philippines, with her infant son, Scott, and 3-year-old daughter, Mary Ann, while her husband, George, was working with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USCGS) for the 16th Naval District in Corregidor.
Her husband was taken prisoner soon after the war began, and she was seized with her children in Manila as a civilian prisoner until American troops recaptured the Philippines.
But the Japanese didn't intern her right away.
''Because my son was only 5 weeks old, they let me stay out of prison camp for awhile,'' Mrs. Morris recalled in a 1973 interview. ''But when my youngest was a year old, they put me in Santo Tomas (St. Thomas University) with the children. They never separated us. The Japanese love children.''
After the war, the family was reunited in Washington, D.C., and moved to the Tampa Bay area, where her husband was head of the USCGS office in Tampa until 1948. Then came several new assignments, including one to Liberia, before the family settled down in 1954 in St. Petersburg. Her husband was assigned to the vessel Hydrographer in Bayboro Harbor until his retirement.
Mrs. Morris was a member of the First Christian Church of Tampa and a volunteer worker at the Veterans Administration Medical Center at Bay Pines.
She was born in Washington, D.C., and received a bachelor of science degree from Longwood College in Farmville, Va., and a master of arts from George Washington University.
She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, United States Daughters of the War of 1812, the Dames of the Court of Honor, Colonial Dames of the 17th Century, National Society of Huguenots, Florida branch of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of the American Ex-Prisoners of War, Maryland Historical Society, Pennsylvania German Society, York County Historical Society, National Genealogical Society, the Hanover, Pa., Historical Society and P i Gamma Mu.
Survivors include her husband, retired Cmdr. George Edward Morris Jr.; a daughter, Mary Ann Newlon, St. Petersburg; a son, Scott Schroeder Morris, Oklahoma City; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Friends may call today from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Kenfield-Woodlawn Funeral Home, 200 Pasadena Ave. S. The funeral will be at noon Wednesday at the funeral home, with Canon Walter P. Plumley officiating. Burial will be in the Florida National Cemetery at Bushnell.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the Americanism Committee, Liberty Bell Fund, SAR, 1000 S Fourth St., Louisville, Ky. 40203.
- Some of the information in this obituary came from stories by Jay Horning and George Bartlett in the St. Petersburg Times and from stories in the Evening Independent.
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