Mrs. Sammie Reid Morris, age 82, of Barren Plains, passed away Thursday, December 26, 2024 at NHC Healthcare in Springfield. Funeral services will be held Monday, December 30, 2024 at 1pm in the chapel of the Austin & Bell Funeral Home in Springfield with Brother Kenny Knight, Brother Ronnie Green and Dennis Morris officiating. Burial will follow in the Hopewell Cemetery with Cody Pope, Michael Pope, Jay Hester, James Lee Morris, Jadum Morris, and Jaxon Roark serving as pallbearers.
Visitation will be held at the funeral home on Sunday, December 29, 2024 from 4-7pm and again on Monday from 10am until the hour of service at 1pm.,
Mrs. Morris was born August 9, 1942 in Springfield to the late Otis Lee and Ester Eden Reid. She was a natural born care giver keeping children in her home for years. She loved them all and treated them all like her own. Friends of her own children loved being at their house because they felt so welcomed there. Having children at a young age herself, she often said that they all grew up together. When she had time for hobbies of her own, she discovered that she loved Bingo and would go and play whenever she had the chance. Later in life when she suffered from Dementia, it was such a blessing that she still told everyone how much she loved them and showed them all that she did.
In addition to her parents Mrs. Morris is preceded in death by the father of her children, Mr. Alford Hawkins Morris, her daughters, Beverly Jane Morris and Tammy Annette Morris, her son-in-law, Paul Roark, her daughter-in-law, Tonya Morris, her brother, Thomas Reid, and her sisters, Joyce Qualls, Bobbie Keith, Beverly Pulley and Dorothy Porter.
Mrs. Morris is survived by her children, Melinda Roark, Timothy “Bubba” Morris, Susan and Delvin Hester, and Dennis and Jill Morris, and the granddaughters she raised, Jacqulyn Swisher and Casey Morris. Mrs. Morris is also survived by 13 more loving grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren, and 5 great-great-grandchildren that will all miss her very much.
Austin & Bell Funeral Home in Springfield is in charge of these arrangements.
AUSTIN & BELL FUNERAL HOME-
509 WALNUT STREET, SPRINGFIELD, TN (615) 384-1000
