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Spouse:  Charles Wayne Morris

Children:  Kaylynn Joanna Morris
Zoey Lee Morris
Step-Children
Angela Pruitt
April Beasley
Alisha Morris
Cody Morris

Grandchildren:  Step-Grandchildren
Devin Thompson Pruitt
Trevor McGill
Mathew Beasley
Joshua Beasley
Kyle Morris
Curtis England
LIndsey England
Makalah Stephens

Parents:  Joseph Raymond Burkett
Karen Kay Strough Burkett

Siblings:  Lynn Marie (Burkett) Mistler

Grandparents:  Harry R. Berkett
Jannetta C. (Robarge) Burkett
Jack D. Strough
Virginia Lee (Gardner) Strough
Great Grandparents
Jesse Burkett
Mary (Bauer) Burkett
Albert Robarge
Mary Lucy (Guilbault) Robarge
Edward Joseph Strough
Elva Marie (Oliver) Strough
Henry Wilbur Gardner
Emma Luciel (Dunnavant) Gardner
 
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Julie Ann Burkett Morris

Washington Park East Cemetery
Cumberland Trails


Julie was a very vivacious person, so fun to be around. She made everyone smile and enjoy life. She never knew a stranger and was always ready to help anyone who was down.

She grew up in Indianapolis, IN with her Mom, Dad and sister Lynn. Unlike most of her friends she never moved, always living in the same house and same school district. Making friends and doing well in school always came easy to her. She would work after school and in the summer and saved enough to buy her own car. Which she was very proud of. Her favorite jobs were baby sitting and being a lifeguard in the summer. She would love to party, but her favorite times were fishing with her father, vacationing every summer at Shakamac State Park and traveling to fun places with her family. The hikes in the Appalachian Mountains and Smoky Mountains along with the beaches of Florida would become some of her favorite places.

After graduating from Lawrence North High School she moved to Terre Haute. There she met her husband Charles Wayne Morris. They were married on the beach at the Grande Lido in Negril, Jamaica December 12, 2001.

She would continue her education in Terre Haute while holding professional sales position with the River Radio and Tribune-Star. Graduating from Ivy Tech in 1998 with an Associate Degree in business administration. She also received an accounting certificate in 1998 and an Account Executive Certificate in 2000 from Radio Advertising Bureau in Irving, Texas. She would excel at most everything she did.

On October 8, 2002 she gave birth to her first child, Kaylynn Joanna and would have her second on January 17, 2004, Zoey Lee. Her children would mean the world to her. Making it hard to return to her profession. But she was stronger than she thought and was able to be a great mother and continue her career.

After an afternoon of 4 wheeling with family she would die at the young age of 29, in a drowning accident in the flooded waters of the Wabash River in Terre Haute. A tragic accident no one will ever be able to understand. A lifeguard that had saved several children over the years would be taken from us.



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A happy baby at 11 months in 1976. Julie always happy and didn't know a stranger.



Julie with Mom, Dad and sister, Lynn.



Julie loved to fish on the Sandusky River for White Bass with Dad, Grandpa and the whole family. She also enjoyed the family hikes in the Blue Ridge Mountains.



Since she loved to be with her Dad and he loved to fish, she went on a lot of fishing trips. She would enjoy sun bathing and reading until Dad found the fish, then she would enjoy bringing them in. Yelling and screaming until she landed them and then released them.



1993 Senior year of high school, age 17.



She was so proud when she bought her first car, an 1983 Firebird with her own money.



She graduated from Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis in 1994 and Ivy Tech in Terre Haute in 1998.



She married on the beautiful beach of the Grande Lido resort in Negril, Jamaica on Dec. 12, 2001 to Chuck Wayne Morris. He was left to raise their children with the help of his family in Terre Haute.



Her first born Kaylynn Joanna was 2 years old when she died and her second born Zoey Lee was 1 year old.



The Morris Family just before her death.


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