Sergeant Morris was a member of Battery A, 503rd Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Kunu-ri, North Korea on December 1, 1950 and died while a prisoner on January 21, 1951. His remains were not recovered.

Accounted For March 2017

Awarded
★ Purple Heart
★ Prisoner of War Medal
★ Korean Service Medal
★ United Nations Service Medal
★ National Defense Service Medal
★ Korean Presidential Unit Citation
★ Republic of Korea War Service Medal

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MORRIS, SGT Stafford Lloyd "Funeral service and burial are set for an Atlanta, Georgia soldier missing in action for 66 years" Funeral service for SGT Stafford Lloyd Morris will be held on Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 11 a.m. at Friendship Baptist Church, 80 Walnut St., SW, with Dr. Richard W. Wills, Sr., Pastor, officiating. Interment, South-View Cemetery with full military honors. He is survived by his sister, Mrs. Virginia M. Phillips; nieces, Dr. Lynn Y. Jones and her children, Tiffany N. Jones and Cary D. Jones, Jr., Aprile (John) Newsome and her children, Teylor, Sydnee, and Giovanni, Charlene Odom, Michael Odom, and Danyielle Odom. After 66 years the remains of US Army Sergeant, Stafford Lloyd Morris, a Korean War MIA/POW will return home on Thursday, August 10, 2017. Sergeant Morris was a member of the U.S. Army, 503rd Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on December 1, 1950. Later the communist forces reported he died in a POW camp on January 21, 1951. Sergeant Morris was only 24 years old at the time of his death Carl M. Williams Funeral Dirs., Inc., 492 Larkin St., SW, 404-522-8454.

Listed on the Korean War Memorial in Dayton, Ohio, Cenotaph Pennsylvania Panel 16