The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-10-28
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Wereoretfully announce the death of Mrs
Anna. L. Morrison, known among our boys as
Mother" Morrison Beloved and honored by
all connected with our institution, and aectionate
Iy remembered by many of our Grey Brotherhood,
as their friend and helper her passing will be sim
cerely mourned by all who have been privileged to
gratefully enjoy her benign and welcome influence
upon their lives
In her going we are deprived of faithful and
loving friend who's life was dedicated to the re-
Mobilization of the fallen and friendless brother
hood in our penal institutions. Faithful and earn
est in her cause, and mistaken faith in fallen
kind she has entered the shadow.
The following, taken from the St. Paul Pro-
NEER Press, is a summary of Mrs Morrison's life
and her noble work. of which in conclusion the best
eulogy that can be given is:
swell done, good and faithful SER
want; thou hast been faithful
few things, l will make thee ruler
over many things; enter thou into the
JOY of thy ord."-St Mathew XIV %.
Mrs. Anna L. Morrison, the oldest and best
loved nilsson worker in Minnesota and perhaps in
the United States, is dead.
Scarcely an hour after she had attended a
meeting at the Union Gospel mission last night
at the Peoples mission, she was stricken with
heart disease at the home of E. G. Howe, 1917
Margaret street.
Mrs Morrison was known affectionately as
mother" by hundreds of prisoners, former con-
victs and human derelicts whom she had cheered
during her long service. She was "a years DID,
She had conducted religious meetings at the state
prison for than fifty years and held meetings
at the Ramsey county Jail and the St. Paul work
house regularly ever since their founding
Beginning as a reform worker at the age of
13, Mrs Morrison spent almost her whole life for
others. AS she had often expressed her wish, she
died in harness. Yesterday afternoon she address,
ed more than forty persons at the Peoples mission
''Whie she attended meeting at the Union
Gospel mission last night she was making plans to
go to Saltwater to teach class of thirty -four girls
and fifteen boys she has there She made the trip
at least once every month for fifty years.
Mrs. Morrison was native of Edinburgh.
Scotland, coming to New York when she was 10
years old. Ever since she came here fifty years a.
60, she had been engaged in prison work. Her
husband, plumber, died here forty three years
ago. He Civil War veteran
Two of fourteen children survive They are
horace Morrlson guard at Cne OClllWater penl-
tertiary, and William Morrison of Minneapolis A
sister, Mrs. John Mitchell, 80 years DID, lives in
Chicago.
Mrs. Morrison celebrated her last birthday
April 16, receiving many tokens of the respect and
love held for her, among which was an enormous
cake, topped with ninty -four red, white and blue
candles.
1t is said that Mother Morrison had never
been seriously i'll day until the day of her DEATH
She stricken with light case of paralysis last
year, but her desire to work speedily overcame the
Illness
''The funeral arrangements have not been
made. Her sons and her sister were notified of
her death last night"