Glenn D. Boker
I have many fond memories of visits with my Uncle Elmo. I can remember spending time when I was a child riding bicycles with Mike and Danny, sliding down a hillside on cardboard boxes, and eating many a hamburger for lunch and dinner. My first experience driving a gas powered vehicle was at his house in Cedar Hill. It was small enough for me to reach the pedals and steering wheel. We got to ride it around a field near their house.
Uncle Elmo had a garage at their house in Cedar Hill full of radio equipment and tools. He was always tinkering on something. He once helped me change out a rear wheel bearing on my 1964 Mercury Monterrey (same vehicle handed down through all of my siblings). I was not surprised that he had the special tool I needed to remove the rear hub. He took me to a parts store to get a new bearing and we fixed it in his garage with a couple hours work and $20 in parts and labor.
After he moved to Ennis we would visit and ride his tractor (at his urging because he always had a task for us to do with it :-).
He liked to go to the flea market with Aunt Betty and buy tools really cheap. I still have a grinder he bought and passed on to my father before he passed away. I am still using the grinder engraved with his last name, Morgan.
Although he did not talk a lot about his military service when I was younger he opened up about it later in life and I was proud to learn of his service in WWII, and especially that he was present on the USS Pilotfish in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese signed their formal surrender. After spending time in the military stationed in Hawaii I took my father on a visit to Pearl Harbor and a submarine, much like the one Uncle Elmo served on. I gained a new appreciation for the very real danger and sacrifices made by submariners.
I have many more wonderful memories of my Uncle Elmo and will miss him.
I know he is resting in peace now with my Aunt Betty.
Sincere condolences to my cousins Pam, Mike, and Danny Morgan.
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Glenn and family.
