Obituary: "Ruby Jean Morris, 72, of Westminster, died Thursday, June 22, 2000, at St. Joseph Hospital, Towson. Born Nov. 12, 1927, in Maryland, she was the daughter of the late Hamilton G. and Ida Irene Hungerford Simpson. She had been a waitress for many years. Before her illness, she had been a resident of Granite House in Westminster. Surviving are son Richard Lee Chenoweth of Westminster; sisters Dorothy Mullinix of Catonsville, Harriet Shipley of Sykesville, Anna Grimes of Catonsville, Helen Nowak of Springfield, Mass., Margaret Nicholson of Damascus, and Larue Turbyfill of Berkeley Springs, W.Va.; brothers Walter Simpson and Thomas Simpson, both of Dayton; two grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. She was predeceased by son David Eugene Simpson; and siblings Hamilton G. Simpson and Marie Rogers. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Haight Funeral Home & Chapel, 6416 Sykesville Road, Sykesville. Interment will be in Linthicum Chapel Cemetery, Clarksville."
She was born and raised on the Simpson farm in Dayton, and was unmarried when she had her first child, David Eugene Simpson. Around early 1949, she married Robert Chenoweth. Shortly afterwards the marriage was annulled; and another boy child was born in September of that year named Richard Lee Chenoweth.
Jean, her two boys Eugene and Richard, and "Mama" moved from the Dayton farm to Ellicott City and eventually to a house on Oakland Mills Road in Eldersburg.
On 4 Sep 1956, Jean married William Henry Morris and he came to live with her in her Eldersburg home. They later divorced.
Jean loved family, music, and dancing.
Obituary: "Ruby Jean Morris, 72, of Westminster, died Thursday, June 22, 2000, at St. Joseph Hospital, Towson. Born Nov. 12, 1927, in Maryland, she was the daughter of the late Hamilton G. and Ida Irene Hungerford Simpson. She had been a waitress for many years. Before her illness, she had been a resident of Granite House in Westminster. Surviving are son Richard Lee Chenoweth of Westminster; sisters Dorothy Mullinix of Catonsville, Harriet Shipley of Sykesville, Anna Grimes of Catonsville, Helen Nowak of Springfield, Mass., Margaret Nicholson of Damascus, and Larue Turbyfill of Berkeley Springs, W.Va.; brothers Walter Simpson and Thomas Simpson, both of Dayton; two grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. She was predeceased by son David Eugene Simpson; and siblings Hamilton G. Simpson and Marie Rogers. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Haight Funeral Home & Chapel, 6416 Sykesville Road, Sykesville. Interment will be in Linthicum Chapel Cemetery, Clarksville."
She was born and raised on the Simpson farm in Dayton, and was unmarried when she had her first child, David Eugene Simpson. Around early 1949, she married Robert Chenoweth. Shortly afterwards the marriage was annulled; and another boy child was born in September of that year named Richard Lee Chenoweth.
Jean, her two boys Eugene and Richard, and "Mama" moved from the Dayton farm to Ellicott City and eventually to a house on Oakland Mills Road in Eldersburg.
On 4 Sep 1956, Jean married William Henry Morris and he came to live with her in her Eldersburg home. They later divorced.
Jean loved family, music, and dancing.
Family Members
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Frances Marie Simpson Rogers
1910–1998
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Dorothy Virginia Simpson Mullinix
1912–2008
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Harriet Beecher Simpson Shipley
1913–2007
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Hamilton Grant Simpson
1914–1938
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Walter Dorsey "Babe" Simpson Sr
1916–2006
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Anna Irene Simpson Grimes
1917–2011
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Thomas Hartley "Dick" Simpson Sr
1920–2018
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Helen May Simpson Nowak
1922–2011
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LuRue Betty Simpson Turbyfill
1926–2013
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