{"id":1527,"date":"2026-10-31T17:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1527"},"modified":"2026-10-31T17:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:32:11","slug":"morrison-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1527","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Michael Morrison Jr. and Barbara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>.family-topic-breadcrumb{font-size:.95rem;margin:0 0 22px}.family-topic-intro{max-width:68ch;line-height:1.7}.family-topic-menu{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(2,minmax(0,1fr));gap:14px;margin:26px 0}.family-topic-menu a{display:block;padding:18px;border:1px solid #c9cec8;border-radius:4px;background:#f5f2e9;text-decoration:none;color:#293d30;min-height:52px}.family-topic-menu strong{display:block;font-size:1.1rem}.family-topic-menu span{display:block;margin-top:6px;color:#4f574e;line-height:1.55;font-size:.95rem}.family-topic-related{border-top:1px solid #d8d2c5;margin-top:32px;padding-top:18px}.family-topic-related a{display:inline-block;margin:6px 22px 6px 0}.family-topic-breadcrumb a:focus-visible,.family-topic-menu a:focus-visible,.family-topic-related a:focus-visible{outline:3px solid #98513b;outline-offset:4px}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb){max-width:960px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb)>p{line-height:1.7}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb) :is(h2,h3){scroll-margin-top:24px}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb) a{overflow-wrap:anywhere}@media(max-width:600px){.family-topic-menu{grid-template-columns:1fr}.family-topic-menu a{padding:16px}}<\/style>\n<nav class=\"family-topic-breadcrumb\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/\">Home<\/a> \u203a <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=12\">Morrison family<\/a> \u203a Remembering Michael Morrison Jr. and Barbara<\/nav>\n<p class=\"family-topic-intro\">The 1956 crash notice and Barbara\u2019s 1969 obituary, retaining the death-date and burial qualifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"michael-morrison-jr-1956\">Michael Morrison Jr.\u2019s crash notice, 1956<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A contemporary newspaper notice identifies Michael Morrison Jr. as 22 and reports that he died at St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital in Kirkwood after an automobile crash on State Highway 30, a mile and a half west of House Springs. Its relative death date agrees with March 13, 1956, on his death certificate. The newspaper attributes the crash account to the State Patrol; it is not the original patrol report and supplies no funeral or burial information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/574395779\/\">\u201cKirkwood Driver Dies Of Auto Crash Injury,\u201d <em>St. Louis Globe-Democrat<\/em>, March 14, 1956, provider page 12, printed page 12A<\/a>. The supplied complete-page export was inspected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"barbara-morrison-obituary-1969\">Barbara Morrison\u2019s obituary, 1969<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barbara\u2019s obituary reports her death in Moberly on February 25, 1969, and recalls her earlier Prairie Hill residence. It gives an Indiana birth on September 21, 1888, names her parents as John and Rose Kunkel, and places her marriage to Mike Morrison in 1920. These are retrospective biographical statements. The notice announces intended funeral services at St. Joseph\u2019s Catholic Church and burial in St. Joseph\u2019s Cemetery; its future-tense wording does not itself confirm that they occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/1365792990\/\">\u201cMrs. Morrison Died Tuesday,\u201d <em>Salisbury Press-Spectator<\/em>, February 28, 1969, page 1<\/a>. The obituary gives Mike\u2019s death as March 11, 1968, whereas his death certificate and family memorial card give March 12. The discrepancy remains unresolved. \u201cRose\u201d is the mother\u2019s printed given name here, and no maternal maiden name is supplied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<nav class=\"family-topic-related\" aria-label=\"Related pages\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=12\">\u2190 Morrison family<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1522\">Morrison family line<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1524\">Morrison stories: choose a topic<\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \u203a Morrison family \u203a Remembering Michael Morrison Jr. and Barbara The 1956 crash notice and Barbara\u2019s 1969 obituary, retaining the death-date and burial qualifications. Michael Morrison Jr.\u2019s crash notice, 1956 A contemporary newspaper notice identifies Michael Morrison Jr. as 22 and reports that he died at St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital in Kirkwood after an automobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1527","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1527\/revisions\/1660"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}