Therese E "Terry" Morris
Dates: November 28th, 1927 – January 19th, 2016
SPRUCE
HEAD - Therese E. Morris, 88, died Tuesday, January 19, 2016, at PenBay Medical
Center in Rockport, after a brief illness.
Born
in Brooklyn, NY, November 28, 1927, the daughter of Walter C. and Louise Knoll
Schad. Growing up in Brooklyn, she attended local parochial schools and
graduated from high school in that city.
After
graduating high school she began employment with a New York City law firm. She
advanced in her work, becoming a legal secretary working on Wall Street until
her retirement.
While
on a date that took her to the ski slopes, Terry met Elroy J. Morris. They
married seven years later, on August 31, 1957 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in
Stephentown, NY.
Following
their marriage Terry continued her work as a legal secretary, making their first
home at Freeport, Long Island, NY. After retirement in 1980, the couple moved to
Patten Point, where they built a new home, and became part of the close knit
Patten Point neighborhood.
Since
moving to Spruce Head, Terry has been an active communicant of St. Bernard’s
Catholic Church, where she enjoyed participating in the Daughters of St.
Bernard. She served more than 30 years as Secretary of the Spruce Head Community
Hall Association, was a member of the Wessaweskeag Historical Society, the
Knit-Wits, and for many years was a Steering Committee member for the Cash For
Clothes Sale.
When
they first moved to Spruce Head, they began snowmobiling with friends. With that
group they expanded their winter travels to the Moosehead area where they forged
many new trails. She was a member of the Snow Owls Snowmobile Club and served a
time as Secretary of that organization.
Other
than her husband Roy of Spruce Head, Terry is survived by a cousin Patricia
Vaccaro of Islandia, Long Island, NY, and her five children, Doris Galati an her
husband Thomas, Skip Vaccaro, Donna Kossack and her husband Robert, Chris
Vaccaro and his wife Carol, Stacey Milonas and her husband Nick; friends, whom
Terry considered as family, Douglas and Laura McLennan and their children,
Shaun, Ashley, Nolan and Liam McLennan, Thomas, Abbie and Mason McLennan, Ray
and Pam Sleeper and their children Jessica and Tucker Baum, Cyrus Sleeper, and
Bud and Maureen Collins; as well as several extended family members and many
friends.
A
Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 2:00 P.M., Friday, January 22, 2016, at St.
Bernard’s Catholic Church, 150 Broadway, Rockland. Interment will be at a later
date in Advocate, Nova Scotia.
In
lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the St. George Firefighters
and Ambulance Association, P.O. Box 249, Tenants Harbor, ME 04860. Arrangements
are in the care of Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home, 110 Limerock
Street, Rockland. To share a memory or condolence with Terry’s family, please
visit her Book of Memories at
www.bchfh.com.