BARBARA M. MORRISON

Barbara "Bobbie" Merton Morrison, 86, of Vero Beach, died peacefully on November 18, 2011, at the Vero Beach VNA Hospice House.

Bobbie was the devoted wife to John J. Morrison to whom she was married for almost 51 years and who pre-deceased her on December 18, 2000. Survivors include her sister Judith Saul of North Carolina; one brother, Bill Merton of Virginia; daughter, Dr. Lynn Williams of Vero Beach; daughter, Sharon Lucie of Jacksonville, FL; son, John James Morrison Jr. of St. Augustine, FL; son, John Roddy Morrison of Vero Beach; granddaughter, Angela Beckley Waldrop of Vero Beach; grandson, Ryland Lucie of Jacksonville FL; grandson, Craig Lucie of Atlanta, GA; grandson, Stephen Morrison of Vero Beach; grandson, Nicolas Morrison of Vero Beach; and great-grandson, Beckley Robert Waldrop of Vero Beach. Her granddaughter, Andrea Morrison, pre-deceased her on May 12, 2009.

Bobbie was born on March 4, 1925, in Lake Worth, FL, and had lived in Vero Beach and John's Island for 50 plus years. She was raised in Stamford, Connecticut, and Englewood, New Jersey. Bobbie was a lifelong Roman Catholic, and she graduated from Rosemont Catholic Girls College where she received the Fulton J. Sheen award for her paper on philosophy. She also obtained an Associates of Science degree in nursing at Indian River State College in 1973.

Bobbie was an accomplished painter, seamstress, and a gourmet cook and baker all while raising, with her husband, their four children. Bobbie had a wonderfully dry sense of humor and an adventuresome spirit. She loved to travel, read and write poetry, listen to music, read the New York Times, walk in the Autumn woods, and take long walks on deserted beaches. She won the first place poetry award in 1990 at the Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest for her poem titled "Bella Coola".

In the early sixties she developed the advertising campaign for the Summerplace development which was founded by her husband and Anthony Drexel Duke. She was also a founding trustee of the Visiting Nurses Association (VNA) in Vero Beach. Bobbie was a member of the Quail Valley River Club at the time of her death.
Bobbie's sense of humor and graceful wisdom will be long remembered and deeply missed.

A private memorial service will be held on a future date.

It is requested that in lieu of flowers, those wishing to do so are asked to make financial contributions to St. Edward's school or to the VNA Hospice House in Vero Beach in Bobbie's name.