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<\/p>\nGillis Morgan<\/p>\n
PFC U. S. Army –\u00a0World War II
\nMarch 5, 1921, Sept. 17, 2002<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 MORGAN, GILLIS LEE, SR.<\/b>,\u00a0 81, Lenoir City, died Sept. 17, 2002 after a long battle with heart trouble.\u00a0 Gillis was born March 5, 1921 in Coalfield to William (Bill) and Maggie Hacker Morgan.\u00a0 He was a combat veteran serving in the Army in the South Pacific in World War II.\u00a0 On Dec. 21, 1944, he almost lost his life when a Japanese Kamikaze plane hit the LST 460 ship he was fighting on.\u00a0 He was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters; three brothers and his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Milas and Mary Ray of Oneida.\u00a0 He is survived by his wife, Margery Ray Morgan whom he married on Easter Sunday, April 25, 1943; children, Karne Papania and husband Joe of Cincinnati, Ohio, Gillis Morgan Jr. and wife Joy Amos Morgan of Lenoir City, and Judy Mattus and husband John of Vancouver, Washington; grandchildren, Joe Pappania and wife, Martha of Cincinatti, Ohio; Krista Panpania of Dallas, 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 Cates of Rockwood; special Army buddy, William Grover of Marietta, Ga. Burial was in Hazel Valley Cemetery in Oneida. Click Funeral Home Chapel was in charge of arrangements.\u00a0 [Roane County News]<\/p>\n
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The slab has a message from his children and grandchildren\u00a0and from me and a Veteran’s stone at the bottom<\/p>\n
Courtesy of \u00a0Margery Morgan<\/p>\n
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