Mrs. Hazel Morrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Hazel West Morrow will be 2:00 p.m., Sunday, February 2, 2014 at the Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Harold Coburn officiating. Interment will be in the Panola-Mt. Zion Cemetery under the direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home. Visitation will be Saturday afternoon from 4-6:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Hazel West Morrow, lovingly known as “Haze”, 88 years old, met her Heavenly Maker peacefully at Grace Home in Shreveport, LA on Thursday, January 30, 2014. Hazel was born on November 27, 1925 on her parent’s farm near Leuders, TX, an only child to loving parents Bill and Norbena Hays West. Hazel never met a stranger and was a loving caregiver to so many. She loved to cook, sew, read, work in her yard (one that was know for her roses on FM 9) and she loved to travel, having most recently been to her cousins reunion in Fredericksburg in July of 2013. Famous for her Sunday lunches for her family that will be sorely missed. Hazel was valedictorian of the class of 1943 in Avoca, TX. She went to Business College in Stamford, TX and worked for nearly 30 years for South Central Bell. She loved her CTI group that met at her home as recently as last April. She was a lifetime member of the Telephone Pioneers, was a founding member of the Community 4 Volunteer Fire Department women’s auxiliary of which she served as president, a member of the Bethel United Methodist Church and UMW, and a member and past president of the Potpourri Club of Panola, TX. She also served her community as an Election Judge and a member of the Panola County Appraisal Review Board and was a member of the Panola-Mt. Zion Cemetery Association. She is survived by her loving daughter, Elaine Tiller and husband Bill of Elysian Fields; Elaine’s two boys, Josh Tiller and wife Bethany and great granddaughter, Brinley of Carthage, T.J. Tiller and wife Mary K. and another great granddaughter to be born in June, of Marshall, TX; her oldest son Larry Morrow and wife Laura of Shreveport and Larry’s adopted children Jessica Stewart and her 3 children of Shreveport and Adam Morrow and his son, Tristen of Alexandria, LA. Her youngest son and the one who enabled her to stay in her home for so long, Charles Morrow of Don Long Road in Waskom, TX; and her beloved dog, Corky. She also leaves beloved cousins, nieces, nephews, and many close friends. Serving as pallbearers will be grandsons Josh and T.J. Tiller, Russell Beaty, Johnnie Stewart, M.L. Gregory and Albert Tiller. Honorary pallbearers are Jimmie Lawless, Donnie Rathbun, James Permenter and Adam Morrow. The family is deeply grateful for the outpouring of love, prayers and support in many heartfelt forms. All the phone calls, visits, flowers and food were greatly appreciated. And also the outstanding care of the doctors and nurses at WK North and the exceptional care at Grace Home in Shreveport, LA. Donations in loving memory of Hazel may be made to Bethel United Methodist Church, Elysian Fields, TX or to Panola-Mt. Zion Cemetery Association, Panola, TX. Yet beyond financial donations, Hazel always lived by the Golden Rule, “Treat others the way you would like to be treated”. i.e.- Do a loving act of kindness, make someone laugh, send a card, give a hug or say “I Love You” to your special friend in her memory.

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Mrs. Hazel Morrow

November 27, 1925 - January 30, 2014