Margaret W. Morland, beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, poet and teacher, passed away on September 8, 2022.
She was born on April 28, 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama to James Alto Ward Sr and Linda Belle Heacock Ward. Graduating with highest honors from Samford University, she pursued graduate studies at Northwestern University and received an MA in English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
While she made her home in Lynchburg, Virginia, she saw much of the world with her sociologist/anthropologist husband, traveling extensively in Europe and Asia and living in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Margaret Morland served as Poet Laureate of Virginia from 1996 to 1998. Her poems have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, and they were gathered into two published volumes, It Happens Thus (1983) and Gift of Jade (1998). More than sixty of her poems were set to music and have been performed by choirs from Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, to the quadricentennial celebration of Jamestown, to the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.....
She was predeceased by her husband of more than fifty years J. Kenneth Morland, by her son-in-law Michael Meserve of Arlington, Virginia, and by her brothers James Alto Ward Jr (Audrey) and William Joseph Ward of Birmingham.
From her Tharp Funeral Home, Lynchburg, VA obituary
She was born on April 28, 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama to James Alto Ward Sr and Linda Belle Heacock Ward. Graduating with highest honors from Samford University, she pursued graduate studies at Northwestern University and received an MA in English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
While she made her home in Lynchburg, Virginia, she saw much of the world with her sociologist/anthropologist husband, traveling extensively in Europe and Asia and living in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Margaret Morland served as Poet Laureate of Virginia from 1996 to 1998. Her poems have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, and they were gathered into two published volumes, It Happens Thus (1983) and Gift of Jade (1998). More than sixty of her poems were set to music and have been performed by choirs from Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, to the quadricentennial celebration of Jamestown, to the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.....
She was predeceased by her husband of more than fifty years J. Kenneth Morland, by her son-in-law Michael Meserve of Arlington, Virginia, and by her brothers James Alto Ward Jr (Audrey) and William Joseph Ward of Birmingham.
From her Tharp Funeral Home, Lynchburg, VA obituary
Margaret W. Morland, beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, poet and teacher, passed away on September 8, 2022.
She was born on April 28, 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama to James Alto Ward Sr and Linda Belle Heacock Ward. Graduating with highest honors from Samford University, she pursued graduate studies at Northwestern University and received an MA in English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
While she made her home in Lynchburg, Virginia, she saw much of the world with her sociologist/anthropologist husband, traveling extensively in Europe and Asia and living in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Margaret Morland served as Poet Laureate of Virginia from 1996 to 1998. Her poems have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, and they were gathered into two published volumes, It Happens Thus (1983) and Gift of Jade (1998). More than sixty of her poems were set to music and have been performed by choirs from Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, to the quadricentennial celebration of Jamestown, to the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.....
She was predeceased by her husband of more than fifty years J. Kenneth Morland, by her son-in-law Michael Meserve of Arlington, Virginia, and by her brothers James Alto Ward Jr (Audrey) and William Joseph Ward of Birmingham.
From her Tharp Funeral Home, Lynchburg, VA obituary
She was born on April 28, 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama to James Alto Ward Sr and Linda Belle Heacock Ward. Graduating with highest honors from Samford University, she pursued graduate studies at Northwestern University and received an MA in English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
While she made her home in Lynchburg, Virginia, she saw much of the world with her sociologist/anthropologist husband, traveling extensively in Europe and Asia and living in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Margaret Morland served as Poet Laureate of Virginia from 1996 to 1998. Her poems have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, and they were gathered into two published volumes, It Happens Thus (1983) and Gift of Jade (1998). More than sixty of her poems were set to music and have been performed by choirs from Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, to the quadricentennial celebration of Jamestown, to the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.....
She was predeceased by her husband of more than fifty years J. Kenneth Morland, by her son-in-law Michael Meserve of Arlington, Virginia, and by her brothers James Alto Ward Jr (Audrey) and William Joseph Ward of Birmingham.
From her Tharp Funeral Home, Lynchburg, VA obituary
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