Norma Jean Boyd Morris

View Funeral Webcast Norma Jean Boyd Morris, 88, resident of the Zion Community, passed from this life Saturday, February 4, 2012 at Maury Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 12:00 noon at Oakes & Nichols with Rev. Mike Dawson officiating. Burial will follow in Polk Memorial Gardens. The family will visit with friends Monday from 10:00 a.m. to service time at the funeral home. Notes of sympathy may be sent to www.oakesandnichols.com. Born in Sweetwater, Texas she was the daughter of the late Ralph Boyd and Pauline Merriman Boyd. She was retired supervisor of sales for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Northwest Ohio and attended First Baptist Church in Columbia. Survivors include her husband of sixty-nine years, Jay W. Morris, of Columbia whom she married December 31, 1942; daughters, Jaynette W. (Colin) Davis of Houston, Texas and Bettie (Joe) Gobble of Columbia; grandchildren, Tim (Denice) Meidinger of Houston, Texas, Bryan (Carmen) Meidinger of Forney, Texas, Jacob (Bonnie) Meidinger of San Felipe, Texas, Jason Gobble of Northfield, Minnesota, Paige (Kevin) Hight of Columbia, Heather (Stephen) James of Nashville, and Jonathan (Karen) Gobble of Columbia; great-grandchildren, Troy Meidinger, Lauren Meidinger, Ryan Meidinger, Max Hight, Gracen Hight, Emma Claire James, Elijah James, Henry James, Teddy James, Isabell Gobble, Oliver Gobble, and Eleanor Gobble. Serving as pallbearers are Tim Meidinger, Bryan Meidinger, Jacob Meidinger, Jonathan Gobble, Jason Gobble, Kevin Hight, and Stephen James.