CHARLES B. MORRIS (JANUARY 25, 1893-NOVEMBER 25, 1918)
CHARLES B. MORRIS WAS BORN JANUARY 25, 1893, NEAR MOUNT AYR, IOWA, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOVEMBER 25, 1918, AT LONGMONT, CO., AGED 25 YEARS AND TEN MONTHS.
HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO BESSIE FAY DOWNING ON MAY 14, 1916. TO THIS UNION WAS BORN ONE CHILD, A DAUGHTER, ILAH FAY.
HE LEAVES TO MOURN THEIR LOSS, A LOVING WIFE AND THEIR DAUGHTER, HIS MOTHER, THREE SISTERS AND SIX BROTHERS, BESIDES A HOST OF OTHER RELATIVES AND A LARGE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS. THE MOTHER, ALL OF THE SISTERS AND BROTHERS WERE PRESENT AT THE FUNERAL EXCEPT ONE SISTER, MRS. ANNA COLE, OF MEMPHIS, MO., AND ONE BROTHER, HERBET MORRIS, WHO IS IN TRAINING AT MARE ISLAND, CA.
HE CONFESSED HIS FAITH IN CHRIST JULY 26, 1914, AT ISADORA, MO., DURING THE MINISTRY OF CHALLIE E. GRAHAM AND UNITED WITH THE CHURCH OF CHRIST THERE.
CHARLIE WAS INDUSTRIOUS AND WELL THOUGHT OF BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED FROM THE ISADORA CHURCH OF CHRIST NOVEMBER 30, 1918, BY HIS PASTOR, CHALLIE E. GRAHAM, AFTER WHICH THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE CEMETERY AT THE SAME PLACE.
THE BEREAVED ONES HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF A LARGE HOST OF FRIENDS, ALL OF WHOM UNITE IN WISHING FOR THEM THE COMFORTING GRACE OF THE KIND HEAVENLY FATHER. MAY HIS STRENGTH SUSTAIN THEM AND HIS LOVING HAND GUIDE THEM TO THE BETTER COUNTRY.