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Willard
L. Morton
Willard
L. Morton, 84, of Grand Island,
died Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at St. Francis Medical Center
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Gollaher
Chapel of Trinity United Methodist Church. The Reverend Onamae Waddel
will officiate. Burial of ashes will be in the Grand Island City Cemetery.
There will be no visitation. All Faiths Funeral
Home is in charge of arrangements.
Willard was born December 18, 1922 at Cody, NE the son of Lemuel and Elizabeth (Minarick)
Morton. His family moved from Cody to Ainsworth in 1923. He
graduated from Ainsworth High
School in 1940. He attended Chadron
State College. He taught in Brown County Rural Schools for
3 years. He entered the U.S. Army in 1943 and was honorably
discharged in 1946. He served in the Dental Corps with the
249th General Hospital, attached to the 5th Air Force
in the Philippines. Upon returning
from the military he worked at Radio Station KMMJ from 1946 until
retiring in 1987.
Willard was born and baptized in the United Methodist
faith. He was a life member of Trinity United Methodist Church serving on various boards and agencies
of the local church, Nebraska Methodist Conference and the Methodist
Jurisdictional Conference.
On October 24, 1986 he was united in marriage to Wilma
Obermeier.
He was a life member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
#1347, Salvation Army Advisory Board and the Hall County Historical
Society. Other memberships are the Saddle Club, American Legion,
Masonic Lodge #33, Scottish Rite, Tehema Temple Shrine, AARP, Stuhr Museum, Kiwanis Club 1959-2005, Admiral
in the Nebraska Navy, served on the Red Cross Board and the original
board of the United
Way.
Those left to cherish his memory are his wife Wilma and
two sisters Verda Elliott and Marian Kalkowski both of North Platte. and four nephews
and three nieces.
He was preceded in death by a sister Fern Primmer of
Ainsworth and a brother Robert Morton of Fremont, NE.
Memorials are suggested to Trinity United Methodist Church or the Salvation Army.
