Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Effingham Buckley III MORRIS
Effingham Buckley Morris III, 90, of Boothbay Harbor, died at home Tuesday evening, November 20.
Born in Philadelphia Penn., he was the son of Effingham Buckley Morris Jr. and Julia Peabody Lewis Morris.
He was a member of the Class of 1936 at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and the Class of 1940 at Yale University. In 1941, he attended the Boeing School of Aeronautics in Alameda, Calif. In the late 1930s Mr. Morris learned to fly at Wings Field and was a life member of the Philadelphia Aviation Country Club. In 1942, he joined the US Navy, attended flight school in Pensacola and was assigned to the flight training command, Naval Air Station, Glenview to provide instruction in aeronautical acrobatics. He was then assigned to Naval Air Transport Service, VR-11 based in Honolulu.
After the war, he flew briefly for the Collier brothers with Plantation Airlines in Florida, and then joined Pan American Airlines. He served as an instructor and check pilot for most of his 31 years with the company.
Upon his retirement from PanAm, he flew privately for the Saudi Royal Family before ending his 40-year career in aviation.
He was predeceased by his first wife, Emily Fuller Henriques Morris in 2003; his second wife, Joanne Smith Morris in 1998; and a son, Grant Winslow Morris in 1978. Survivors include his wife, Joan Black Morris of Boothbay Harbor; three daughters, Julia L. Morris of Bristol, R.I., Carol E. Eckmeder and her husband Preston of New Hope, Penn., and May C. Morris of Middletown, R.I.; two sons, Sam Morris and his wife Connie of Boothbay Harbor, and James P. Morris and his wife Gina of Howell Michigan; a stepdaughter, Juliet Coombs and her husband William of Boothbay Harbor; a sister, Julia M. Disston of White Marsh, Penn.; half brother, Anthony Morris; half sister Virginia Morris, both of California, half brother Sidney Morris of Nantucket, Mass.; eight grandchildren; and four great- grandchildren. Visiting hours will be held from 4 to 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30 at the Simmons, Harrington & Hall Funeral Home, 975 Wiscasset Road in Boothbay. The funeral will be held Saturday, Dec. 1 at 1:30 p.m. at the Bremen Union Church, Rt. 32 in Bremen. Should friends desire, in lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the Bremen Union Church P.O. Box 223 Bremen, ME 04551. Arrangements are entrusted to Simmons, Harrington & Hall Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 975 Wiscasset Rd., Boothbay, ME.
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