Shirley M. Morrison

Dr. Shirley M. Wimberly Morrison, 88, died Monday, November 2, 2015 at an Abilene, Texas nursing center. Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, November 6, at The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road in Abilene. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, November 7, at The Hamil Family Funeral Home Chapel with Janet Mendenhall officiating. Burial will follow in Elmwood Memorial Park. Born in Stuttgart, Arkansas on June 13, 1927, Shirley was the daughter of Mabel (Dennison) and Jack Wimberly. She attended Peabody Elementary, East Side Junior High, and graduated from Little Rock Central High School in 1945. She continued her education at MidState Baptist Hospital School of Nursing in Nashville, Tennessee (RN); Cal State University at Fullerton, California (BSN); Cal State University, Los Angeles, CA (MSN); and Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (PhD. Edu). She had worked in OB/Delivery/Pediatrics in Chicago, Nashville and Anaheim, CA. Since 1981, Dr. Morrison had been a resident of Abilene where she taught in the Abilene Intercollegiate School of Nursing (Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene Christian University, and McMurry University, 1981-1997) as well as Cisco Junior College in Abilene from 1997 until her retirement in 2007 at 80 years of age. She also served on the board of directors of both West Texas Rehabilitation Center and Hospice of the Big Country in Abilene. She was listed in Who’s Who in Nurses Education. Shirley was a Methodist and a member of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, CA. She married Dana Jennings Morrison on March 12, 1952 in Las Vegas, NV. She was preceded in death by her husband of 43 years on December 9, 1995. She was also predeceased by her parents and one sister, Christina. Survivors include her one daughter, Martha Comardo of Abilene; three sons, Stephen Morrison of Abilene, Dana Morrison and wife Cleo of Oklahoma City, OK and Bill Morrison of Enoch, Utah; one brother, Jack Wimberly and wife Betty of West Bend, Wisconsin; nine grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. Online condolences may be submitted at www.HamilFamilyFuneralHome.com.