January
13,
1928
13,
1928
March
21,
2018
21,
2018
John Owen Morris, Jr. age 90, born in Lincoln, NE on January 13, 1928 passed away on March 21, 2018 at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, CA. His father was a golf professional at Happy Hollow Club in Omaha, NE and mother, the youngest daughter of Lincoln Hoxsey, member of a pioneering family, dating back to Sandwich, MA in the early 1600’s.
He attended Omaha Central High in Omaha and Iowa State College where he obtained a BS degree in engineering. Later, he also attended UCLA, USC, and Van Norman Law School.
After serving in the Army Chemical Corps during the Korean War as a plant engineer at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, he went on in pioneering pursuits in nuclear, electronic, and petroleum instrumentation plus overseeing entire projects in aircraft missile and space programs in the 50’s and 60’s. In 1970 he changed careers to the investment and securities business joining Schwabacher & Co, retiring in 1991 from Prudential Securities, the successor firm.
John was a member of various organizations including Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, a life senior member of IEEE, serving 11 years on the investment committee of the Masonic Grand Lodge of California. He joined Saticoy Country Club in 1981 and was also a member of various golfing organizations including Senior Golfers of America.
Graveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, May 10, 2018, and his urn will be interred in the Hoxsey Family area at the West Serena Cemeter
y Serena, IL.
The major surviving family members are several generations of Hoxsey’s mainly in LaSalle and DeKalb Counties in Illinois.
Cremation and burial Rites were entrusted to Turner-Eighner Funeral Home in Somonauk, IL. For more information of to sign the online guest book, go to www.EighnerFuneralHomes.com
Turner-Eighner Funeral Home
13160 Rt. 34 W. ~ PO Box 404
Somonauk, IL 60552
815-498-2363
He attended Omaha Central High in Omaha and Iowa State College where he obtained a BS degree in engineering. Later, he also attended UCLA, USC, and Van Norman Law School.
After serving in the Army Chemical Corps during the Korean War as a plant engineer at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, he went on in pioneering pursuits in nuclear, electronic, and petroleum instrumentation plus overseeing entire projects in aircraft missile and space programs in the 50’s and 60’s. In 1970 he changed careers to the investment and securities business joining Schwabacher & Co, retiring in 1991 from Prudential Securities, the successor firm.
John was a member of various organizations including Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, a life senior member of IEEE, serving 11 years on the investment committee of the Masonic Grand Lodge of California. He joined Saticoy Country Club in 1981 and was also a member of various golfing organizations including Senior Golfers of America.
Graveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, May 10, 2018, and his urn will be interred in the Hoxsey Family area at the West Serena Cemeter
y Serena, IL.
The major surviving family members are several generations of Hoxsey’s mainly in LaSalle and DeKalb Counties in Illinois.
Cremation and burial Rites were entrusted to Turner-Eighner Funeral Home in Somonauk, IL. For more information of to sign the online guest book, go to www.EighnerFuneralHomes.com
Turner-Eighner Funeral Home
13160 Rt. 34 W. ~ PO Box 404
Somonauk, IL 60552
815-498-2363
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