Ed was the son of the Rev. Marshall Powers and Dora Bell Slimp Morton. His mother is buried in New Addition Annex in Palestine City Cemetery. He was a retired car inspector for Missouri Pacific Railroad. His wife, Mary Louise Ward Morton, is also buried Roselawn Park. He was survived by his wife; two sisters, Ann Taylor and Elsie Blue, both of Palestine; and one brother, M. P. Morton of Orland, CA. His obituary was published in the Palestine Herald-Press, Thursday, 22 May 1986.
Ed was the son of the Rev. Marshall Powers and Dora Bell Slimp Morton. His mother is buried in New Addition Annex in Palestine City Cemetery. He was a retired car inspector for Missouri Pacific Railroad. His wife, Mary Louise Ward Morton, is also buried Roselawn Park. He was survived by his wife; two sisters, Ann Taylor and Elsie Blue, both of Palestine; and one brother, M. P. Morton of Orland, CA. His obituary was published in the Palestine Herald-Press, Thursday, 22 May 1986.
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Ed W. Morton
1909 – 1986
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Gravestone photo courtesy of Beverly Odom/East Texas Genealogical Society.
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