Marjorie Marie Morris, daughter of Claude James (C.J.) Morris and Helen Elizabeth (Butler) Morris was born on August 7, 1923 in Kent, Iowa. She was the second of four children and raised on a family farm. Later the family moved to Lenox where she continued her education. She loved her pony and horse, enjoyed her friends, worked at the dime store, was active in music, 4-H and sports playing as a guard on the Lenox girls' basketball team. She graduated in the class of 1941, then took Normal Training to become a teacher, an occupation she loved and excelled at for forty years.
At the age of nineteen, Marjorie met the love of her life, Darrell Reynolds, at the fall 1941 Iowa State Teachers’ Convention in Des Moines. He played a trick on her that weekend by tying her shoestrings in knots. Darrell then asked Marjorie if her could come to Lenox to see her. The next weekend, Marjorie saw him driving his car up and down Main Street looking for her. The following year they eloped and were married on August 23, 1942 at the Methodist Parsonage in Rockport, Missouri. When Marjorie started teaching, female teachers were not to get married. Marjorie was the first female teacher in Adams County to be married. Marjorie would get to school early to build the fire in her rural one-room schoolhouse. Her first teaching contract paid $65.00 a month. When roads were muddy, she rode her horse two miles to school. She loved teaching and taught children of all ages, grades kindergarten through eighth at the rural schools Grant #5 from 1941 until 1944, Grant #8, Grant #9 where she taught her youngest brother, Robert, Platte #4, and Platte #5 before deciding to teach fourth grade at Clearfield Public Schools from 1956 until 1961. In addition to full-time teaching and raising a family, she continued her education and received her bachelor’s degree in education in 1964 from Northwest Missouri State College at Maryville. In 1961 through 1986, she taught fifth and sixth graders at Lenox Community School. Her dedication to her work and students was displayed when her math students won the Iowa State Math Contest in 1980. She possessed a great sense of humor and was a fun-loving person who loved joking with students, and made learning fun.
Marjorie was a great cook and became known for her delicious homemade divinity she would give to friends and family during the holidays. Also a favorite were her orange slice cookies. She enjoyed playing the piano, was a great seamstress, loved to play 500, bridge, and black jack and always had beautiful handwriting (just like the Zaner Bloser handwriting manuals.)
On November 9, 1947, two months before the due date, Darrell and Marjorie had twin daughters, Connie and Kathie. She had no idea she was having twins, but found out on the delivery table when she heard the doctor say, “There’s another one!” Their home in Lenox was always welcome to friends and relatives to come and visit or stay with them. Darrell and Marjorie enjoyed dancing, square dancing, always took the timefor family reunions and vacations in Colorado, California, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, and Minnesota. After retiring, Marjorie substituted for a while in Lenox grade school, junior high, and high school. For many years, Darrell and Marjorie enjoyed going to country music concerts and festivals, traveling throughout the states, and camping with friends and family in Arizona, Nevada, and California during the winters. Marjorie, being the great money-manager that she was, and a good card player, said they could live in Nevada cheaper than they could live at home. During the summers, they enjoyed camping in their trailer and motor home at the Iowa State Fair and in their backyard with their grandchildren.
She was a 66 year member of the Lenox United Methodist Church, UMW, Order of the Eastern Star for 50 + years where she was Worthy Matron and a grand officer, NEA, The UAC (Up and Coming) card club, two bridge clubs, and the American Legion Auxiliary.
The last few years before Darrell’s death, she lovingly and capably cared for him in their home. Marjorie spent the last one and a half years of her life at Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa where her daughter, Connie and her family live.
Marjorie was preceded in death by her parents Claude (C.J.) and Helen Butler Morris, her husband for almost 67 years Darrell, her brothers Kenneth Morris, and Hal Dean Morris and wife Florabelle (Pat) Morris; her father-in-law and mother-in-law Perry James Reynolds and Nora Elizabeth (Mason) Reynolds, her sisters-in law Evah Kerr Hagie and husbands, Nina Agnew and husband Floyd, Ruby Agnew and husband Darley, Ruth Carter Adams and husbands, and Imogene Miller and husband Glen; and brothers-in-law Horatio Reynolds and wife Gladys, Everett Reynolds and wife Myrtle, Herbert Reynolds and wife Marybelle, Woodrow Reynolds and wife Florence, and Francis Reynolds and wife Ruth and nephews Jack Carter, Fred Reynolds, Jim Agnew and niece Phyllis Fischer.
At the age of nineteen, Marjorie met the love of her life, Darrell Reynolds, at the fall 1941 Iowa State Teachers’ Convention in Des Moines. He played a trick on her that weekend by tying her shoestrings in knots. Darrell then asked Marjorie if her could come to Lenox to see her. The next weekend, Marjorie saw him driving his car up and down Main Street looking for her. The following year they eloped and were married on August 23, 1942 at the Methodist Parsonage in Rockport, Missouri. When Marjorie started teaching, female teachers were not to get married. Marjorie was the first female teacher in Adams County to be married. Marjorie would get to school early to build the fire in her rural one-room schoolhouse. Her first teaching contract paid $65.00 a month. When roads were muddy, she rode her horse two miles to school. She loved teaching and taught children of all ages, grades kindergarten through eighth at the rural schools Grant #5 from 1941 until 1944, Grant #8, Grant #9 where she taught her youngest brother, Robert, Platte #4, and Platte #5 before deciding to teach fourth grade at Clearfield Public Schools from 1956 until 1961. In addition to full-time teaching and raising a family, she continued her education and received her bachelor’s degree in education in 1964 from Northwest Missouri State College at Maryville. In 1961 through 1986, she taught fifth and sixth graders at Lenox Community School. Her dedication to her work and students was displayed when her math students won the Iowa State Math Contest in 1980. She possessed a great sense of humor and was a fun-loving person who loved joking with students, and made learning fun.
Marjorie was a great cook and became known for her delicious homemade divinity she would give to friends and family during the holidays. Also a favorite were her orange slice cookies. She enjoyed playing the piano, was a great seamstress, loved to play 500, bridge, and black jack and always had beautiful handwriting (just like the Zaner Bloser handwriting manuals.)
On November 9, 1947, two months before the due date, Darrell and Marjorie had twin daughters, Connie and Kathie. She had no idea she was having twins, but found out on the delivery table when she heard the doctor say, “There’s another one!” Their home in Lenox was always welcome to friends and relatives to come and visit or stay with them. Darrell and Marjorie enjoyed dancing, square dancing, always took the timefor family reunions and vacations in Colorado, California, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, and Minnesota. After retiring, Marjorie substituted for a while in Lenox grade school, junior high, and high school. For many years, Darrell and Marjorie enjoyed going to country music concerts and festivals, traveling throughout the states, and camping with friends and family in Arizona, Nevada, and California during the winters. Marjorie, being the great money-manager that she was, and a good card player, said they could live in Nevada cheaper than they could live at home. During the summers, they enjoyed camping in their trailer and motor home at the Iowa State Fair and in their backyard with their grandchildren.
She was a 66 year member of the Lenox United Methodist Church, UMW, Order of the Eastern Star for 50 + years where she was Worthy Matron and a grand officer, NEA, The UAC (Up and Coming) card club, two bridge clubs, and the American Legion Auxiliary.
The last few years before Darrell’s death, she lovingly and capably cared for him in their home. Marjorie spent the last one and a half years of her life at Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa where her daughter, Connie and her family live.
Marjorie was preceded in death by her parents Claude (C.J.) and Helen Butler Morris, her husband for almost 67 years Darrell, her brothers Kenneth Morris, and Hal Dean Morris and wife Florabelle (Pat) Morris; her father-in-law and mother-in-law Perry James Reynolds and Nora Elizabeth (Mason) Reynolds, her sisters-in law Evah Kerr Hagie and husbands, Nina Agnew and husband Floyd, Ruby Agnew and husband Darley, Ruth Carter Adams and husbands, and Imogene Miller and husband Glen; and brothers-in-law Horatio Reynolds and wife Gladys, Everett Reynolds and wife Myrtle, Herbert Reynolds and wife Marybelle, Woodrow Reynolds and wife Florence, and Francis Reynolds and wife Ruth and nephews Jack Carter, Fred Reynolds, Jim Agnew and niece Phyllis Fischer.
Marjorie Marie Morris, daughter of Claude James (C.J.) Morris and Helen Elizabeth (Butler) Morris was born on August 7, 1923 in Kent, Iowa. She was the second of four children and raised on a family farm. Later the family moved to Lenox where she continued her education. She loved her pony and horse, enjoyed her friends, worked at the dime store, was active in music, 4-H and sports playing as a guard on the Lenox girls' basketball team. She graduated in the class of 1941, then took Normal Training to become a teacher, an occupation she loved and excelled at for forty years.
At the age of nineteen, Marjorie met the love of her life, Darrell Reynolds, at the fall 1941 Iowa State Teachers’ Convention in Des Moines. He played a trick on her that weekend by tying her shoestrings in knots. Darrell then asked Marjorie if her could come to Lenox to see her. The next weekend, Marjorie saw him driving his car up and down Main Street looking for her. The following year they eloped and were married on August 23, 1942 at the Methodist Parsonage in Rockport, Missouri. When Marjorie started teaching, female teachers were not to get married. Marjorie was the first female teacher in Adams County to be married. Marjorie would get to school early to build the fire in her rural one-room schoolhouse. Her first teaching contract paid $65.00 a month. When roads were muddy, she rode her horse two miles to school. She loved teaching and taught children of all ages, grades kindergarten through eighth at the rural schools Grant #5 from 1941 until 1944, Grant #8, Grant #9 where she taught her youngest brother, Robert, Platte #4, and Platte #5 before deciding to teach fourth grade at Clearfield Public Schools from 1956 until 1961. In addition to full-time teaching and raising a family, she continued her education and received her bachelor’s degree in education in 1964 from Northwest Missouri State College at Maryville. In 1961 through 1986, she taught fifth and sixth graders at Lenox Community School. Her dedication to her work and students was displayed when her math students won the Iowa State Math Contest in 1980. She possessed a great sense of humor and was a fun-loving person who loved joking with students, and made learning fun.
Marjorie was a great cook and became known for her delicious homemade divinity she would give to friends and family during the holidays. Also a favorite were her orange slice cookies. She enjoyed playing the piano, was a great seamstress, loved to play 500, bridge, and black jack and always had beautiful handwriting (just like the Zaner Bloser handwriting manuals.)
On November 9, 1947, two months before the due date, Darrell and Marjorie had twin daughters, Connie and Kathie. She had no idea she was having twins, but found out on the delivery table when she heard the doctor say, “There’s another one!” Their home in Lenox was always welcome to friends and relatives to come and visit or stay with them. Darrell and Marjorie enjoyed dancing, square dancing, always took the timefor family reunions and vacations in Colorado, California, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, and Minnesota. After retiring, Marjorie substituted for a while in Lenox grade school, junior high, and high school. For many years, Darrell and Marjorie enjoyed going to country music concerts and festivals, traveling throughout the states, and camping with friends and family in Arizona, Nevada, and California during the winters. Marjorie, being the great money-manager that she was, and a good card player, said they could live in Nevada cheaper than they could live at home. During the summers, they enjoyed camping in their trailer and motor home at the Iowa State Fair and in their backyard with their grandchildren.
She was a 66 year member of the Lenox United Methodist Church, UMW, Order of the Eastern Star for 50 + years where she was Worthy Matron and a grand officer, NEA, The UAC (Up and Coming) card club, two bridge clubs, and the American Legion Auxiliary.
The last few years before Darrell’s death, she lovingly and capably cared for him in their home. Marjorie spent the last one and a half years of her life at Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa where her daughter, Connie and her family live.
Marjorie was preceded in death by her parents Claude (C.J.) and Helen Butler Morris, her husband for almost 67 years Darrell, her brothers Kenneth Morris, and Hal Dean Morris and wife Florabelle (Pat) Morris; her father-in-law and mother-in-law Perry James Reynolds and Nora Elizabeth (Mason) Reynolds, her sisters-in law Evah Kerr Hagie and husbands, Nina Agnew and husband Floyd, Ruby Agnew and husband Darley, Ruth Carter Adams and husbands, and Imogene Miller and husband Glen; and brothers-in-law Horatio Reynolds and wife Gladys, Everett Reynolds and wife Myrtle, Herbert Reynolds and wife Marybelle, Woodrow Reynolds and wife Florence, and Francis Reynolds and wife Ruth and nephews Jack Carter, Fred Reynolds, Jim Agnew and niece Phyllis Fischer.
At the age of nineteen, Marjorie met the love of her life, Darrell Reynolds, at the fall 1941 Iowa State Teachers’ Convention in Des Moines. He played a trick on her that weekend by tying her shoestrings in knots. Darrell then asked Marjorie if her could come to Lenox to see her. The next weekend, Marjorie saw him driving his car up and down Main Street looking for her. The following year they eloped and were married on August 23, 1942 at the Methodist Parsonage in Rockport, Missouri. When Marjorie started teaching, female teachers were not to get married. Marjorie was the first female teacher in Adams County to be married. Marjorie would get to school early to build the fire in her rural one-room schoolhouse. Her first teaching contract paid $65.00 a month. When roads were muddy, she rode her horse two miles to school. She loved teaching and taught children of all ages, grades kindergarten through eighth at the rural schools Grant #5 from 1941 until 1944, Grant #8, Grant #9 where she taught her youngest brother, Robert, Platte #4, and Platte #5 before deciding to teach fourth grade at Clearfield Public Schools from 1956 until 1961. In addition to full-time teaching and raising a family, she continued her education and received her bachelor’s degree in education in 1964 from Northwest Missouri State College at Maryville. In 1961 through 1986, she taught fifth and sixth graders at Lenox Community School. Her dedication to her work and students was displayed when her math students won the Iowa State Math Contest in 1980. She possessed a great sense of humor and was a fun-loving person who loved joking with students, and made learning fun.
Marjorie was a great cook and became known for her delicious homemade divinity she would give to friends and family during the holidays. Also a favorite were her orange slice cookies. She enjoyed playing the piano, was a great seamstress, loved to play 500, bridge, and black jack and always had beautiful handwriting (just like the Zaner Bloser handwriting manuals.)
On November 9, 1947, two months before the due date, Darrell and Marjorie had twin daughters, Connie and Kathie. She had no idea she was having twins, but found out on the delivery table when she heard the doctor say, “There’s another one!” Their home in Lenox was always welcome to friends and relatives to come and visit or stay with them. Darrell and Marjorie enjoyed dancing, square dancing, always took the timefor family reunions and vacations in Colorado, California, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, and Minnesota. After retiring, Marjorie substituted for a while in Lenox grade school, junior high, and high school. For many years, Darrell and Marjorie enjoyed going to country music concerts and festivals, traveling throughout the states, and camping with friends and family in Arizona, Nevada, and California during the winters. Marjorie, being the great money-manager that she was, and a good card player, said they could live in Nevada cheaper than they could live at home. During the summers, they enjoyed camping in their trailer and motor home at the Iowa State Fair and in their backyard with their grandchildren.
She was a 66 year member of the Lenox United Methodist Church, UMW, Order of the Eastern Star for 50 + years where she was Worthy Matron and a grand officer, NEA, The UAC (Up and Coming) card club, two bridge clubs, and the American Legion Auxiliary.
The last few years before Darrell’s death, she lovingly and capably cared for him in their home. Marjorie spent the last one and a half years of her life at Heritage House in Atlantic, Iowa where her daughter, Connie and her family live.
Marjorie was preceded in death by her parents Claude (C.J.) and Helen Butler Morris, her husband for almost 67 years Darrell, her brothers Kenneth Morris, and Hal Dean Morris and wife Florabelle (Pat) Morris; her father-in-law and mother-in-law Perry James Reynolds and Nora Elizabeth (Mason) Reynolds, her sisters-in law Evah Kerr Hagie and husbands, Nina Agnew and husband Floyd, Ruby Agnew and husband Darley, Ruth Carter Adams and husbands, and Imogene Miller and husband Glen; and brothers-in-law Horatio Reynolds and wife Gladys, Everett Reynolds and wife Myrtle, Herbert Reynolds and wife Marybelle, Woodrow Reynolds and wife Florence, and Francis Reynolds and wife Ruth and nephews Jack Carter, Fred Reynolds, Jim Agnew and niece Phyllis Fischer.
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