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Alice Morison

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Alice Morison

Birth
Traer, Tama County, Iowa, USA
Death
31 Jan 1950 (aged 49)
Denver, City and County of Denver, Colorado, USA
Burial
Traer, Tama County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Traer Star Clipper, Friday, February 3rd, 1950 – page – 1
Alice Morison, only living daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Morison, pioneers of the Traer community died Tuesday night at Denver, Colorado. Alice was an invalid for nearly fifteen years, a victim of arthritis, she was 49. Her brothers, John and Donald, living in Denver , are bringing the body to Traer for burial and will arrive today. Funeral services are to be held at 1:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the States Funeral Home. The Rev. Carl Bast, Congregational pastor will conduct the service. Ruth Thomas will provide music. Casket bearers will be K. P. Moore, Judge B. F. Thomas, L. L. Sawyer, D. H. Hyland, Roy Kern and H. E. Taylor. Burial will be in Buckingham cemetery.
Alice was born in Traer, November 11, 1900, graduating form Traer High School in 1918 and attending the Grinnell college. She was employed several years by the Cedar Rapids Gazette and for a Des Moines farming magazine publishing company. She also worked for the income tax division of the Internal Revenue Service. She lived in California for a time and moved to Denver Colorado, where the last twenty years of her life have been spent. For the last nine years she had been cared for in an apartment in Denver by Mrs. Elsie Mott, a daughter of the late Mrs. J. P. Morrow of Traer. She was a member of Denver Episcopal church. Alice married Frank Mills of Walker, Iowa in 1921. After ten years they were divorced. They had no children.
A sister, Martha Morison died in 1923. Alice's mother in 1942, her father in March of 1947. Survivors include the brothers, John Morison of Fleming Colorado and Donald of Denver and three nephews.
Traer Star Clipper, Friday, February 3rd, 1950 – page – 1
Alice Morison, only living daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Morison, pioneers of the Traer community died Tuesday night at Denver, Colorado. Alice was an invalid for nearly fifteen years, a victim of arthritis, she was 49. Her brothers, John and Donald, living in Denver , are bringing the body to Traer for burial and will arrive today. Funeral services are to be held at 1:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the States Funeral Home. The Rev. Carl Bast, Congregational pastor will conduct the service. Ruth Thomas will provide music. Casket bearers will be K. P. Moore, Judge B. F. Thomas, L. L. Sawyer, D. H. Hyland, Roy Kern and H. E. Taylor. Burial will be in Buckingham cemetery.
Alice was born in Traer, November 11, 1900, graduating form Traer High School in 1918 and attending the Grinnell college. She was employed several years by the Cedar Rapids Gazette and for a Des Moines farming magazine publishing company. She also worked for the income tax division of the Internal Revenue Service. She lived in California for a time and moved to Denver Colorado, where the last twenty years of her life have been spent. For the last nine years she had been cared for in an apartment in Denver by Mrs. Elsie Mott, a daughter of the late Mrs. J. P. Morrow of Traer. She was a member of Denver Episcopal church. Alice married Frank Mills of Walker, Iowa in 1921. After ten years they were divorced. They had no children.
A sister, Martha Morison died in 1923. Alice's mother in 1942, her father in March of 1947. Survivors include the brothers, John Morison of Fleming Colorado and Donald of Denver and three nephews.


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