Alvis Auston Morris

© Enid News and Eagle

11-28-2009

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Glenn

The graveside service for Alvis Auston Morris, 74, of Enid, will be 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 30, 2009, in Square Cedar Cemetery, near Cleo Springs, with Pastor Dan O'Daniel officiating. Arrangements are entrusted with Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home. Family will receive friends from 4-6 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Alvis was born Oct. 7, 1935, to William A. and Lillian L. Brown Morris in the Helena area and passed away Friday, Nov. 27, 2009, in Enid.

He attended Jet schools and graduated from Coving-ton High School.

He then married Camylia Beckner Dec. 21, 1956, and she passed away in May 1980. They had five children.

He was a carpenter by trade and built many homes in the Enid area. He developed and established Green Valley Addition outside Lahoma. He served as president of the Oklahoma Builders Associa-tion. Alvis also built and owned Al's Drive In in Lahoma from 1969 to 1979.

He married Millie Wilcox Gum in Oklahoma City on Aug. 19, 1983. They moved to Texas and managed motels until returning to Enid. He then worked for Punch-Lock and Specialty Plastics, part of Parrish Enterprises before retiring. He enjoyed attending the Chisholm Trail Cowboy Church.

Alvis coached summer softball teams and put together a youth football team from Ames, Drummond and Lahoma, called the Green Valley Raiders. He loved to fish and took his young grandchildren fishing at Green Valley pond. He also wrote many stories and poems and loved watching football games. Alvis will be greatly missed by all who have come to know him over the years.

Alvis is survived by his wife, Millie, of the home; children, Cindy and Mark Bergdall and Kevin and Sunny Morris, all of Lahoma, Nathan and Treva Morris and Darin and Tracye Morris, all of Enid, and Kim and Rick Wood of El Campo, Texas; stepchildren, Debbie and Terry Heffel of Okeene and Gary and Kristi Gum of Meeker; 24 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; two brothers, John and Loretta Morris of Portland, Texas, and Delton Morris of Enid; two sisters, Janetta Nakvinda of Ringwood and Deanna and Ronnie Kruckenberg of Enid; brother-in-law, Dale Pettus; and sister-in-law Gerri Morris.

He was preceded in death by a wife Camylia; his parents; a brother, Dwayne Morris; and two sisters, Jerleen Pettus and Lora Fisher.

Memorials may be made to Chisholm Trail Cowboy Church or Hospice Circle of Love with Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home serving as custodians of the fund.

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