Esther Morse
March 11, 1922 — January 15, 2006
Esther Morse
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Esther Morse
March 11, 1922 - January 15, 2006
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Esther Ruth Morse, 83, of Woodway passed away Sunday morning, January 15, 2006 in a San Antonio hospital following heart surgery.
SERVICES
Services will be at 11:00 a.m.. Wednesday at the Seventh and James Baptist Church with Dr. Raymond Bailey and the Rev. Roger Duck officiating.
BURIAL
Burial will be in the Morse family plot in Calvin, Ok. at 11 a.m. Thursday by OakCrest Funeral Home of Waco.
VISITATION
Visitation with her family will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Blvd.
PERSONAL HISTORY
Esther Ruth Cowsert was born to missionary parents, Jack and Grace Bagby Cowsert, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 11, 1922 and first saw the United States when she was five years old.
She attended schools in Brazil, Mississippi, and Texas and graduated from Baylor University in 1941.
She worked in the censorship office in New Orleans during World War II and later completed nursing school in Charlotte Memorial Hospital in North Carolina.
Esther married James Otto Morse on October 22, 1953, and they served as Southern Baptist missionaries in Barranquilla, Colombia from 1959 to 1968 during which time she was a nurse in the Baptist Hospital.
She later followed her physician husband to assignments in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Tucson, Arizona; Muskogee, Oklahoma; Temple, Texas; Landstuhl, Germany; and Fayetteville, North Carolina before retiring to the Waco area in 1995.
She was active in Baptist churches in all of those places and most recently in the Seventh and James Baptist Church locally.
SURVIVORS
She is survived by her husband, James; daughters, Martha Morse of San Antonio, and Robin Lefforge of Vancouver, British Columbia; granddaughters, Callie Stewart of Granbury and Ashley Lefforge of Oklahoma City; grandsons, Andrew Powell-Morse of San Antonio and Buck and Jason Lefforge of Oklahoma City, and a sister, Helen Cowsert of Wingate, North Carolina.
She also leaves two great grandchildren, Seagann and Bria Stewart of Granbury.
Esther also considered Rebecca Hilliard and family of Belton to be an adopted part of the family.
Esther Morse
March 11, 1922 - January 15, 2006
__________________________________________________________________________
Esther Ruth Morse, 83, of Woodway passed away Sunday morning, January 15, 2006 in a San Antonio hospital following heart surgery.
SERVICES
Services will be at 11:00 a.m.. Wednesday at the Seventh and James Baptist Church with Dr. Raymond Bailey and the Rev. Roger Duck officiating.
BURIAL
Burial will be in the Morse family plot in Calvin, Ok. at 11 a.m. Thursday by OakCrest Funeral Home of Waco.
VISITATION
Visitation with her family will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Blvd.
PERSONAL HISTORY
Esther Ruth Cowsert was born to missionary parents, Jack and Grace Bagby Cowsert, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 11, 1922 and first saw the United States when she was five years old.
She attended schools in Brazil, Mississippi, and Texas and graduated from Baylor University in 1941.
She worked in the censorship office in New Orleans during World War II and later completed nursing school in Charlotte Memorial Hospital in North Carolina.
Esther married James Otto Morse on October 22, 1953, and they served as Southern Baptist missionaries in Barranquilla, Colombia from 1959 to 1968 during which time she was a nurse in the Baptist Hospital.
She later followed her physician husband to assignments in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Tucson, Arizona; Muskogee, Oklahoma; Temple, Texas; Landstuhl, Germany; and Fayetteville, North Carolina before retiring to the Waco area in 1995.
She was active in Baptist churches in all of those places and most recently in the Seventh and James Baptist Church locally.
SURVIVORS
She is survived by her husband, James; daughters, Martha Morse of San Antonio, and Robin Lefforge of Vancouver, British Columbia; granddaughters, Callie Stewart of Granbury and Ashley Lefforge of Oklahoma City; grandsons, Andrew Powell-Morse of San Antonio and Buck and Jason Lefforge of Oklahoma City, and a sister, Helen Cowsert of Wingate, North Carolina.
She also leaves two great grandchildren, Seagann and Bria Stewart of Granbury.
Esther also considered Rebecca Hilliard and family of Belton to be an adopted part of the family.
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