Carl Morris

Carl Morris passed away at his home on June 7, 2015, at the age of 92. Carl was born in Thalia, Tex. at the family home place to Carl Bernard Morris and Lena Mae Miller Morris on December 22, 1922.

Carl lived his life in full for 92 years. He was a homebuilder and real estate developer, expert sailor and a Navy pilot. He attended Texas A&M University prior to World War II. When the war began, he resigned his Army commission and joined the Navy, becoming part of the Naval Air Force. After the war, he returned to his studies at the University of Texas Law School.

Carl built homes of every type during his career, from military housing in Kansas, starter homes in Wichita Falls, volume home building in Clear Lake City and custom homes in Lakeway, Tex. His very first home was built in Austin, Tex. while in law school.

Carl was a member of the Austin Yacht Club for the past 47 years. He was known to be a fierce competitor and spent many wonderful weekend afternoons sailing on Lake Travis. He started a tradition of “gin and tonics” after the race each Sunday and named his boat “Gin Tonic”. He was full of life and shared his enthusiasm with everyone he came in contact with.

Carl is survived by his wife of 68 years, Joan Yvonne Morris, his three children, Nancy Carolyn Morris; Carl Bernard Morris, III and his spouse Donna; all of Austin; and Meg Morris Conine and her spouse Kent, of Dallas. He is also survived by his six grandchildren, Sol and Aaron Morris; Amber Morris KC and her spouse Ramu; Travis, Mason and Shelby Conine; and four great grandchildren, Gadarian Morris, Sumara, Syree and Sakaia KC. He is also survived by his sister Mae Naylor and numerous nephews and nieces with whom he was very close. In addition to his mother and father, Carl was preceded in death by his sister, Naomi Morris Green and brother, John Miller Morris.

A memorial service was held on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, at GreenRidge at Buckner Villas. In lieu of flowers, please consider a contribution in his memory to the Texas Builders Foundation, 313 East 12th Street, Suite 210, Austin, TX 78701.

Sanders

Della Mildred Sanders, 94, died June 29, 2015, in Midland.

Services will be held on Thursday, July 2, at 2:00p.m. at the First United Methodist Church, Kermit, Tex. Pastor Elinor Ruth Fowler officiating.

Private internment at Suggs Cemetery, Hearne, Tex.

Della Sanders was born on January 18, 1921, in Winters, Texas the fourth of six children of Robert and Floy Pearl Brewer.

She married Erwin Nunley on October 8, 1938, in Stanton, Texas. Together, they moved to Kermit, Texas and had a son, Darwin Nunley, on April 6, 1950. They moved to Hearne, Tex. in 1976.

After her first husband passed away, Della married James “Jim” Sanders on March 21, 1983, in Hearne, Tex. They moved back to Kermit, Texas in 1983 and Della lived there the remainder of her life.

Della often worked as a bank teller, both in Kermit and Hearne.