Jeanne Marie Morrow

Jeanne Marie Morrow, housewife, mother, and longtime Clarendon resident, died on April 29 at the nursing home in Clarendon. She was 79.

The cause was respiratory distress and heart failure, said her son John Earl.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 5, in First Baptist Church in Clarendon with the Rev. Darrell Burton, officiating. Burial will be in Citizens Cemetery by Robertson Funeral Directors.

Mrs. Morrow was born April 30, 1932, in Donley County at home to Herman L. and Peggy A. Percival. She was the salutatorian of her graduating class of 1949 at Clarendon, and was awarded a scholarship to a college in Belton, Texas, that she never left Clarendon to attend. Mrs. Morrow, who at one time was a vocational nurse at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo, devoted her life to her husband, Ira Kenneth Morrow, and her three sons Daniel Lee, Joe Wayne, and John Earl.

She accepted the Lord as her Savior and friend as a teenager, and was her happiest when reading stories from the Bible. She named her sons good Biblical names that she loved. She loved the First Baptist Church of Clarendon.

Later, she always looked forward to the worship services held in the nursing home. When asked her feelings about people three weeks before her death, she said she “loved everybody” and she truly did.

In addition to her son John Earl Morrow of Clarendon, her survivors include her sons Daniel Lee of Plano and Dr. Joe Wayne Morrow. She is survived also by her brother Billy Joe Percival of Grand Prairie; fourteen grandchildren; and seventeen great-grandchildren.

A son, Samuel David Morrow, died after four hours of life in Groom in 1950. Her husband Ira Kenneth Morrow died in Clarendon in 2007. Her father Herman Percival died in Amarillo in 1972, and her mother Peggy Percival died in Grand Prairie in 2002. Her brother Ralph Percival died in Houston in 2006. Also, she had two brothers Paul and Herman Jr. and a sister Margery Sue who each died young at about the age of one.