Harold Morrison
1948
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HAL MORRISON DIES AT AGE 58
Harold Morrison, 58, general manager of the Milne Chair
Company here, died at 6 o'clock this morning at the Alexian Brothers Rest Home
on Signal Mountain after an extended illness.
He was a member of an old southern family
and was well known in both civic and social life of Chattanooga. He had
been connected with the Milne Company since 1921, and had served as general
manager from the time he joined the company until illness approximately a year
ago caused him to retire.
He was a member of the Mountain City Club
and of the Fairyland Club. He was a graduate of McCallie School here and
of the University of Virginia.
Born April 11, 1890, Mr. Morrison was the
son of Robert Morrison and Caroline Putnam Morrison. He was married in
1923 to the former Miss Stirling Milne of this city, who survives.
Rites Wednesday
Other survivors include his daughter, Miss
Janet Putnam Morrison, a student at Stuart Hall, Staunton, Virginia, and a son,
Harold Morrison, Jr., a student at Georgia Tech in Atlanta; a brother, Putnam
Morrison, Vicksburg, Miss.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30
o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the chapel of the Wann Funeral Home. Rev.
James O. Bodley officiating.
Interment will follow in Forest Hills
Cemetery.
The following will serve as pallbearers:
Scott Probasco, Sam Hutchinson, C. V. White, Dyer Butterfield, Burkett
Miller, Bartow Strang, Manker Patten, Eugene Thomasson, Ernest Martin and Jo
Conn Guild.
The following employees of the Milne Company
also have been named honorary pallbearers: Joe Hines, Tom Dixson, Ralph
Dixson, L. D. Wrinkle, Fritz Lowe, David Lingerfelt, E. R. Gwinn, John McMahon
and George Blanchard.
Submitted by Susan Kendall
SusieQ1160@aol.com