Ira Kenneth Morrow's Obituary
CLARENDON
SERVICES- 2:00 pm on Saturday, March 17, 2007 in the First Baptist Church in Clarendon with Rev. Darrell Burton, Pastor of the Martin Baptist Church, and Rev. Claude Porter, officiating.
INTERMENT- Citizens Cemetery.
Ira Kenneth Morrow, 77 of Clarendon passed away Wednesday, March 14, 2007 in Clarendon.
Mr. Morrow was born in Alanreed, Texas on July 31, 1929 to I.B. “Kenneth” & Jewel Elizabeth Walker Morrow. He graduated from Clarendon High School in 1946. He wanted to be a pilot during WWII, but was too young to join. As soon as he could, he joined the Army Air Corps pursuing his dream to fly, and served his country from 1946 to 1949 in Alaska at Fort Wainwright, and in Roswell, New Mexico. He received training in the service for welding, and
because of his skill he was carried over to the Army when the Army Air Corps was split into two branches of the military: the Army and the Air Force. He then attended Clarendon College for one year,studying accounting and cabinet making. He married Jeanne Marie Percival in 1949 in Clarendon, Texas, and the couple settled in Clarendon, Texas the same year, where he began the construction of what would be the first of the three homes he would construct for his family. He was a self-employed building contractor, working with his father and brothers and sisters on
various construction projects such as storm cellars, home construction, roofing, and concrete work within Donley County, primarily in Clarendon, Texas. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Clarendon.
PRECEDED IN DEATH BY- his parents; one son, Samuel David Morrow; and 1 sister, Maggie Stewart.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE- his wife, Jeanne Marie Morrow of Clarendon; 3 sons, Daniel Lee Morrow & Joe Wayne Morrow both of Dallas, and John Earl Morrow of Clarendon; 2 brothers, Earl B. Morrow & John Tom Morrow of Clarendon; 5 sisters, Helen Myers of Lelia Lake, Lucy Torres of Memphis, Ina Blasingame of Mineral Wells, Mary Brown & Rosey Myer both of Amarillo; 13 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren.
MEMORIALS - The family requests memorials be to Odyssey Hospice, or the Medical Center Nursing Home in Clarendon.
THE FAMILY MAY BE CONTACTED AT: 420 East Cooke Street / PO Box 250 / Clarendon, Texas 79226 / Phone #: (806)874-2704
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