Paul Morris

Paul Earp Morris, 80, of Bainbridge, GA, passed away Monday, December 1, 2008 at Memorial Hospital. The funeral service will be at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at Ivey Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Rick Burhans and Rev. Stephen L. Webb officiating. Interment will follow at Brinson Cemetery with Rick Ragan, Rusty Davis, Chuck Rich, Chipper Smith, Harry Smith, and Reese Rollins serving as active pallbearers. The family will receive friends Tuesday, December 2, 2008 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Ivey Funeral Home. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.iveyfuneral.com . Mr. Morris was born April 13, 1928 in Pierce, FL, the son of Ollinger Palmer Morris and Lillian Earp Morris. He was a 1947 graduate of West Bainbridge High School, and was a retired conductor/switchman for Seaboard Airline/CSX Railroad. He was the owner and operator of Morris Appliance and the co-owner and operator Suds & Scrub Laundromat & Car Wash. He was preceded in death by his wife, Annette Brooks Morris. Survivors include his son Bubbie Morris and his wife Terri of Jacksonville, FL; three daughters, Carolyn M. Burhans and her husband Rick of Ormond Beach, FL, Joni Morris-Anderson and her husband Donny of Tallahassee, FL, and Merreann M. McDonald and her husband Greg of Bainbridge, GA; six grandchildren, Cristal M. Devenburg, Lilian Morris, Jonathan Morris, Christin Terrell, Taylor McDonald and Grant McDonald; and two great-grandchildren, Richard Terrell and Elizabeth Terrell.