Gillis Lee Morgan

1921 - 2002  (81 years)

• Name	Gillis Lee Morgan
  Birth	5 Mar 1921	Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Sep 2002
  Burial	Oneida, Scott, Tennessee, United States
  Siblings	6 Siblings
  1. Elmer Marris Morgan,   b. 22 Oct 1911   d. 30 Sep 1972  (Age 60 years) ▻ Marie Best,  m. 24 Aug 1940   2. Virginia Mae Morgan,   b. 31 Jan 1916, Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States d. 18 Nov 1918, Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States  (Age 2 years)   3. Harvey Edwin Morgan,   b. 1918   d. 1971  (Age 53 years)   4. Gillis Lee Morgan,   b. 5 Mar 1921, Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States d. 17 Sep 2002  (Age 81 years) ▻ Margery Helen Ray   5. Billy Morgan,   b. 30 Jun 1924, La Follette, Campbell, Tennessee, United States d. 30 Sep 1983  (Age 59 years)   6. Martha Ruth Morgan   7. Edna Maud Morgan   bur. La Follette, Campbell, Tennessee, United States
  Person ID	I1737	Main Tree
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2022

  
  

  Father	William Eli Morgan,   b. 21 Oct 1886   d. 7 Mar 1976 (Age 89 years)
  Mother	Maggie Lou Hacker,   b. 23 Dec 1891   d. 19 Nov 1933, Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	19 Oct 1910
  Family ID	F3387	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margery Helen Ray,   b. 15 Aug 1927, Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States d. 26 Dec 2009, Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States (Age 82 years)
  Children	1. Karen Morgan   2. Gillis Lee Morgan, Jr.   3. Judith Kay Morgan
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2009
  Family ID	F812	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 5 Mar 1921 - Coalfield, Morgan, Tennessee, United States Burial - - Oneida, Scott, Tennessee, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  MORGAN, GILLIS LEE, SR., 81, Lenoir City, died Sept. 17, 2002 after along battle with heart trouble. Gillis was born March 5, 1921 inCoalfield to William (Bill) and Maggie Hacker Morgan. He was a combatveteran serving in the Army in the South Pacific in World War II. OnDec. 21, 1944, he almost lost his life when a Japanese Kamikaze planehit the LST 460 ship he was fighting on. He was preceded in death byhis parents; two sisters; three brothers and his father-in-law andmother-in-law, Milas and Mary Ray of Oneida. He is survived by hiswife, Margery Ray Morgan whom he married on Easter Sunday, April 25,1943; children, Karen Papania and husband Joe of Cincinnati, Ohio,Gillis Morgan Jr. and wife Joy Amos Morgan of Lenoir City, and JudyMattus and husband John of Vancouver, Washington; grandchildren, JoePapania and wife, Martha of Cincinatti, Ohio; Krista Papania ofDallas, Texas and Billy Lambert of Vancouver, Washington;great-grandchild, Christopher Papania of Cincinnati, Ohio; sister,Ruth Huckeby and John of Vermillion, Ohio; special niece Mendy Catesof Rockwood; special Army buddy, William Grover of Marietta, Ga.Burial in Hazel Valley Cemetery in Oneida. Click Funeral Home Chapelwas in charge of arrangements. [Roane County News] [Photo andcemetery marker]