Morley Evans Fox

Fox, Morley Evans
91, died in Washington, D.C. on March 1 at the Residences at Thomas Circle where he had lived since Dec. 2001. He was the Washington representative of the Central Arizona Project (CAP) from 1964 to his retirement in 1990. He continued as a consultant for CAP and was active in the celebration when the first water from the Colorado River reached Phoenix in 1993. He edited two newsletters dealing with water issues: Watergram and Reclamation News. In 2004, he donated his papers relating to CAP to the Arizona Collection at ASU. Inspired by Teddy Roosevelt, Mr. Fox's father, Frederick P. Fox, founded a summer ranch for boys 25 miles south of Flagstaff in 1927. This ranch, "Foxboro," had its summer range up on the ridge, and its winter range in the Big Park area of Sedona. Starting in 1935, Mr. Fox's brother, Kel Fox, ran the ranch as the "2 Cattle Co." Mr. Fox was born in Stamford, CT April 17, 1919, the fourth child of Frederick and Josephine Morgan Fox. He attended school in Scarsdale, NY and at the Asheville School for Boys in Asheville, NC. He entered the University of Arizona in the fall of 1938 and then was drafted in Aug. 1941. After the war, he returned and graduated with the class of 1947. He was also an honorary member of the Princeton University Class of 1943. He attended Officers Candidate School at Fort Monroe, VA. He served in Alaska as a public relations officer in Cold Bay, Adak, and Anchorage. Upon discharge in Jan. 1946, he joined the Army Reserve. He served in the Korean War from July 1951 to Nov. 1952, stationed at Fort Lewis, WA. In 1946 when Kel Fox was elected as a State Representative, Morley Fox began to help run the family ranch. In 1952, he went to work for the Arizona Cattlegrowers Association as editor of their magazine. In 1954 he joined the Arizona division of the National Brewer's Foundation, becoming the state director in 1959. He was active in the Foundation's "Don't be a Litterbug" advertising. He also volunteered for the original "Smokey the Bear" campaign. He was a charter member of the Church of the Beatitudes in Phoenix, AZ. He was predeceased by four siblings: Kelvin Fox, Wynfred Greacen, Frederic Fox and Quentin Fox and a brother-in-law, Thomas Greacen. He is survived by his sisters-in-law, Hannah Putnam Fox of Mitchellville, MD, Patricia Grady Fox of Sedona, AZ, and his ex-sister-in-law, Nancy Elder of Burlington, Ontario. He is further survived by fourteen nieces and nephews, 26 great-nephews and nieces, and 6 great-great nieces and nephews. In addition to his parents, many uncles, aunts and cousins, he was preceded in death by a niece, Josephine Morgan Fox, a great-niece, Hanna Cardona Fox and a great-nephew, Stephen Fox. A memorial service will be held in Washington at the Residences at Thomas Circle on Sunday, March 13 at 1:00pm with committal of his ashes at a later date at the Kensico cemetery in Valhalla, NY. The DeVol Funeral Home of Washington is in charge of arrangements.