{"id":3971,"date":"2016-08-28T18:48:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T22:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2024-08-05T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:04:08","slug":"john-andrew-morrison-ii-2x-great-grandson-of-t1cg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/?p=3971","title":{"rendered":"John Andrew Morrison II – 2x Great Grandson of T1cg"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Andrew Morrison II is the son of Tony D. and Grace Long Morrison.<\/p>\n

John was born November 21, 1934, at Stephenville, Texas. He was delivered by Dr. Tom Gordon, a kinsman. The first six months of his life, the family lived on the grounds of the school where his father and mother taught near Tolar, Texas. In early summer of 1935, the family moved to Beaumont, Texas.<\/p>\n

John attended South Park Public Schools in Beaumont, graduating from the high school in 1952. His was a normal childhood for the time, much of it spent outdoors roller skating, riding bicycles, playing corner lot baseball and football, cowboys and Indians, American soldiers vs the Japanese, marbles, tops, yo-yos, and the rest of the crazes as they came to and went from the school grounds.<\/p>\n

John attended Lamar State College of Technology, graduating in 1956 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. That summer he went to work in Ft. Worth, Texas, as an Associate Engineer. He helped develop a high performance military aircraft, the B-58, working in flight test as an instrumentation engineer.<\/p>\n

On December 26, 1956, he married Sue Ellen Davis, a marriage that has thriven for almost 60 years at this writing. They have three children:<\/p>\n