Francis H. (Graham) Morgan
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William H. Morgan - June 21, 1922
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Eagle Valley Enterpirse page 1 - May 13, 1954
rs. Billy Morgan Dies Of Heart Attack
Saturday morning, May 8, broke, much the same as many a calm spring morning. Eagle people prepared for the usual Saturday tasks at home and in business houses. Then a cloud hovered over the town, and the sunshine was obliterated- Morgan had left us. At 8 30, she closed her eyes, and slipped away. As one moved around the town, during the day, there was the same stunned expression wherever one went—an expression of unbelieving. Morgan had quietly gone to sleep, and gone on a long needed vacation.
That Saturday morning, Morgan hadn’t varied her routine of 38 years. She had gone about her household tasks, and was in the final act of making the bed, before opening the Serv-U shop for another day, when the pain hit her. It was but a half hour later, that she gave in to the pain—the only foe she had ever known, and she didn’t know how to meet him —she just closed her eyes and went to sleep. Morgan was born in Belfast, Ireland May 14, 1880. Frances H. Graham spent her childhood in Portland, Me-, and came to Eagle in 1916, where she was employed in the Howes General Store.
June 21, 1922, she was married to Wm. H. Morgan and shortly after she opened the Serv-U Shop, which through the years to come, was to become a gathering place for those with a few moments to kill—a spot for those with problems, and woes to unburden—and Morgan was there, to listen, to console, or applaud as the occasion demanded.
Many is the sweet girl graduate, who had not the money to dress as her classmates—many is the bride, who had not that certain finery, so dear to her heart, who left Morgan's Serv-U Shop, a happier person for having confided in her. These are but two examples of Morgan’s great generosity, her understanding of the young people—Morgan, who in spite of the years was young at heart, always- Her’s was the first business house to be hit for help when the school needed assistance—when sorrow arose.
Morgan’s final rites were as unpretentious as she had lived—at her request- A simple service, with no flowers, were held in the Burdge Ohapel in Glenwood Tues day morning, and she is resting in Fairmount in Denver. Her survivors? Her beloved Billy; two asters, one in Ireland, and one in Canada—and two generations of Eaglefls young people, .plus scores of older people scattered to the four comers of the earth.
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