GERALDINE MORRIS

October 2, 1919 - May 14, 2015

Geraldine F. Morris, 95 of Kankakee, peacefully passed away, Thursday, May 14, 2015 at Presence Our Lady of Victory Nursing Home. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. Thursday at Lax Mortuary in Kankakee. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. on Friday until the 10 a.m. services at the New Jerusalem SDA Church in Bradley. Burial will be in the Momence Cemetery. Memorials may be made in her honor to Presence St. Mary’s Hospital Foundation for the Social Services Department and Kankakee Valley Hospice. Geraldine retired from Manteno State Hospital in 1985 after which she enjoyed traveling and spending time with her family and many friends. She was a member of the Ephesus SDA Church in Pembroke, Illinois. She is survived and will be greatly missed by her sons, Alex Sr. and Michael (Rita), grandsons, Alex Jr., Christopher (Sara), and Sterling; great-grandsons, Alex III, Vernon, and Christopher II; special daughters Virginia Durr (niece), Nancy Williams (niece), Eileen J. Morris, Joyce Shoemaker; special sons Michael Shoemaker, Ernest Ewing, and Joseph Crowell, Sr., and a host of relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, siblings, Syvella, Ellen, Vesta, and Willis, and special daughters Laura Ortiz (niece) and Regina Stanley.