Louise Martha Morris' Obituary
Louise Martha (Schmidt) Morris passed away in Lewes, DE on Monday January 9, 2017. Louise was born in Madison, NE on August 9, 1931, youngest daughter of the late Herman Schmidt and Louise Rhode Schmidt.
Louise graduated from high school in Fremont, Nebraska where she later attended Midland Lutheran College. In the early 1950's Louise moved to Washington D.C. and worked at the National Bureau of Standard Laboratory, and later at the Dental Research Laboratory of the National Institute of Health.
Her hobby was the care and feeding of birds and animals and while living in Washington was noted for attracting and feeding mocking birds and other birds at her open fourth floor dining room window sill along a busy avenue. Such care and feeding continued in later years in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware in the trees and shrubs at her home.
She is survived by her loving husband of sixty years, Hayden Morris as well as two sisters, Ruth Schmidt and Ada Jones and was predeceased by one sister Beata Schmidt and three brothers, Alfred, Herman and Louis Schmidt.
Memorial Services will be held on Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 3:00 PM at Parsell Funeral Homes and Crematorium, Atkins-Lodge Chapel, 16961 Kings Highway, Lewes, DE 19958. Interment will be held at a later date in Vermont.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Louise's name to the charity of ones choice.
Please sign Louise's online guestbook located on this site.
FLORIST NOTE: PLEASE HAVE ALL FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS DELIVERED BY 3 PM, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2017 TO PARSELL FUNERAL HOMES, LEWES, DE.
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