Anna Morley

ATLANTA — Anna Elizabeth Callahan Morley, 91 of Sandy Springs/Atlanta, passed away Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. She was born in Glenridge, N.J., May 8, 1918. Her family moved in 1924 to Lakeland, Fla., where she grew up. She was salutatorian of her graduating class at Lakeland High School. She graduated magna cum laude from Florida Southern College in 1940, where she became a member of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority, Alpha Psi Omega national honorary dramatics fraternity and the Vagabond Players. In 1961 the family moved to Atlanta where she was active in the Episcopal Church of the Atonement as a member of the choir, a Lay Reader, a Lay Eucharistic Minister, a Daughter of the King and a member of the cast of “Our Town.” At the Episcopal Church of St. Peter and St. Paul she was a graduate of Education for Ministry, a member of the Alpha Class and a member of the Folder Folk.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her daughter, Helen Elizabeth Morley May. She is survived by her husband of 67 years, Frank H. Morley Jr.; two daughters and sons-in-law, Barbara and Harold Pirkle of Tifton and Pat and Larry West of Roswell; one son, Frank H. Morley III of Atlanta; and one son-in-law, Jim May of Little Rock, Ark. She had seven grandchildren, Anna Pirkle and Emily Pirkle, of Atlanta, David Matheny of Dacula, Traci Kratchner of Marietta and Larry West of Roswell, Katelyn and Malcolm Cartwright of Little Rock; and three great-grandchildren, Sean Dominguez of Roswell, Julie and Emily Matheny of Dacula.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Episcopal Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Marietta. The family requests that in lieu of flowers memorials be made to Crossroads Hospice (www.CrossroadsHospice.com) or the Episcopal Church of St. Peter and St. Paul (www.peterandpaul.org).

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