Our loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and
great-great-grandmother passed away Saturday, April 30, 2011, at
the home of her daughter, Valorie Lund in Layton, Utah. Rae Nola
Baker Morris was born in North Creek, Utah on May 9, 1917 to Daniel
Ray and Edith Sylvia Twitchell Baker. She was their sixth child,
and was welcomed into the family by her siblings, Raymond, Shirley,
Luella, Loretta and Vyron. Her father died when she was 6 months
old. Her mother died when she was only 13. Her step-father, Harry
Green, was kind and loving to the family, but she dearly missed her
mother. She loved her brothers and sisters, and they taught her to
love the outdoors, and wide open spaces. She graduated from Spanish
Fork High School, and shortly thereafter married Wm. Ormond Morris
in the St. George Temple on May 6, 1936.
Nola and Ormond Morris
Together they raised 5
daughters and one son. She influenced each of them with her strong
testimony, her hard work ethic, her kindness to everyone and her
optimistic attitude. She loved everyone and opened her doors to
many people. Her basement was almost always full with one person or
another. She loved little children and they always knew that she
loved them no matter what they had done. She loved to quilt and
made a new quilt for every baby in her ward for several years.
All
of her kids and grandkids have benefitted from her love of
quilting. At one time she made over 100 quilts for the humanitarian
project and was featured on the Spoken Word. She had a deep love
for her ancestors and spent a great deal of her time writing
histories and stories about them. She loved her Savior and had a
strong testimony of His atonement. Her life can be summed up in
just a few words: She was a choice daughter of our Heavenly Father.
She spent her life in the service of others.
She is survived by 4 daughters, 1 son, and 3 sons-in-law:
Carlene (Dan, dec.) Jepperson of Orem; John (Roena, dec.) Stevens,
Orem; Karen (Glen) Foster, Rigby, ID; DellaRae (Francis, dec.)
Anderson, Orem; Neal (Sherian) Morris, Nephi; and Valorie (Gary)
Lund, Layton; 30 grandchildren, 86 great-grandchildren, and 43
great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her
husband, Ormond, one daughter, Roena, her parents, all of her
siblings, 2 sons-in-law, 3 grandchildren, Todd Anderson, Keith
Jepperson, and Matthew Morris, and 1 great-grandchild J.J.
Dynes.
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