Rebecca Jo Owen Morris

Courtland

Funeral for Rebecca Jo Owen Morris, 64, of Courtland will be Thursday, June 18, 2009, at 11 a.m. at Parkway Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Scottie Hill, Bro. R.C. Borden and Bro. Roy Harbin officiating.
Burial will be in Courtland City Cemetery. Visitation will be tonight from 6 to 9 at the funeral home.
Mrs. Morris, who died Tuesday, June 16, 2009, at home, was born Oct. 7, 1944, in Moulton to Ernest "Slick" Owen and Clara Terry Owen. She was a member of Wheeler Grove Baptist Church. She retired from the Lawrence County School System and was a nurse for area hospitals, private practice and home health care.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Prentis Morris; and one sister, Theresa Owen.
Survivors include one son, Marlon Morris, and his wife, Donna, of Decatur; one daughter, Michelle Sherrer, and her husband, Chris, of Colorado Springs, Colo.; one sister, Pat Owen Fridelle of Rock Hill, S.C.; and two grandchildren, Caleb and Cristin Sherrer of Colorado Springs, Colo.
Pallbearers will be Susan Williams, Susan Parker, Kaye Utley, Brenda Masterson, Rosia Ann McGregor, Betty McGregor, Carolyn Morris and Jean Blackmon Vincent.
Honorary pallbearers will be Judy Hill, Joan Owens, Debra Allard, Linda Peebles, Eva Deal, Geneva Long, Judy Sapp, Diane Cocks and Louise Baker.
Other pallbearers will be nephews, Ricky, Ralph, Roger, Josh, Mitchell and Justin Morris, Charles Letson, Willard Terry, Larry Morris, Jason Morris, Roy McVay and Stacy Wilson.
Special thanks to Hospice of the Valley, P.O. Box 2745, Decatur, AL 35602, and special nurse, Mary Katherine Harbin.
This obituary was originally published in the Decatur Daily.