Virginia D. Morris

A riverside memorial is planned next summer in Idaho for four-year Gardnerville resident Virginia D. Morris, 94, who died Feb. 11, 2010 at Merrill Gardens.

Born July 14, 1915, she migrated from Oklahoma to California in 1922 with her family in a convoy of Model Ts. The family traveled Highway 50 through Carson City and Lake Tahoe, settling in Bell, Calif.

She married Cecil Morris, and the couple lived in a home they built with their two sons. Mrs. Morris was a homemaker, skilled in dressmaking, upholstery and arts and crafts.

The couple established a second home on the Salmon River in Idaho, where they spent summers with Mrs. Morris' sister Katherine and her husband Jack.

Mrs. Morris was a retired Los Angeles building inspector. She moved to Gardnerville to be closer to her family.

She is preceded in death by her husband of 67 years, who was interred at the Salmon River in 2007, and grandson Kurt Morris in 1988.

She is survived by sons Donovon Burke, of Hemet, Calif., and Jim (Melinda) Morris; sister Katherine Loggins of Elk Bend, Idaho; grandchildren Glen Burke of Las Vegas, Kenneth (Michelle) Burke of South Pasadena, Calif., Craig (LeAnn) of Carson City, Annie (Jeff) Schnaubelt of North Barrington, Ill.; great-grandchildren Cami Burke of Las Vegas, Andrew Morris of Carson City, Peter Erik and Kurt Schnaubelt, all of North Burlington.