By Staff
June 19, 2009
Funeral for Pernie Summerford Morris, 96, of Danville was Sunday, June 21, at 3 p.m. at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with Keith Andrews officiating.
Burial was in Herring Cemetery.
Mrs. Morris died Friday, June 19, 2009, at Decatur General Hospital. She was born December 28, 1912, in Morgan County to Newtis Edward Summerford and Virginia Clementine Patterson. She was a longtime member of Cedar Plains Christian Church where she served as a Sunday school teacher, Bible school teacher, secretary and treasurer. She was preceded in death by her husband, James W. Morris; a daughter, Virginia Sue McClellan; two brothers, Wallace Edward Summerford and Robert Sheats Summerford; and two sisters, Bernice S. Bailey and Barbara Ellen S. Jolly.
She is survived by a son-in-law, James O. McClellan of Massey; two sisters, Doris Anders Herring of Massey and Virginia S. Duncan of Boyce, La; two grandchildren, Frank McClellan and wife Cherie and Patti Ozbolt and husband Barry; and five great-grandchildren, Marin McClellan, Morgan McClellan, Brandon Ozbolt, Brooke Ozbolt and Lucas Johnson.
Pallbearers were nephews, Ferrell Anders, Larry Anders, Jack Arnold, Denny Morris, Mac Morris and Lynn Thompson.