Obituary: Pat "Patsy" Lee (Crain) Morrison

Pat "Patsy" Lee (Crain) Morrison passed on peacefully from this world Saturday, April 29, at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula of natural causes.

She was born in Glasgow, Montana, in 1931 to Rockwell and Virginia (Amlin) Crain. Her parents divorced when she was very young, and Pat and her older sister were raised by their father, maternal grandmother and many family friends who boarded the girls when their father was away working.

Their childhood wasn't easy, but both girls graduated Glasgow High School near the top of their class while working various jobs in the community.

After high school, Pat moved to Havre, where she worked as a dental assistant, met and married Robert "Bob" Morrison in 1951. After the wedding they moved to Washington, D.C., and then to New Jersey, where Bob worked as an FBI agent.

They returned to Havre three years later.

Bob opened a successful legal firm, and they raised three daughters, Lynn (Miles) Hamilton, Robyn (Gerald Hill) Morrison and Karen Morrison.

Pat was active in the community while their children were young, teaching Sunday school in the Presbyterian Church, volunteering in the schools and with the library, community concert association, and local rest home. A natural athlete, she played softball, golfed, bowled and skied with the family. She was an accomplished cook and enjoyed needlework, card games and her bridge groups in Havre and Whitefish.

She worked as a teacher's aide at the high school, took classes at Northern Montana College and worked in medical records at the hospital to help put the girls through college.

Bob and Pat retired to Whitefish in 1989. She continued to golf competitively, was a state senior women's champion and served two terms on the Whitefish Lake Golf Course Board of Directors. She was named to the Whitefish Golf Association Hall of Fame in 1999. Bob and Pat later moved to Kalispell for 11 years and four years ago to a retirement community in Missoula.

Pat was preceded in death by her parents and daughter Karen.

She is survived by her husband, Bob, of Missoula; sister, Nona Crain of Palm Springs, California; daughters, Lynn, Havre, and Robyn, Helena; and grandchildren, Kristen and Kelsen (Jennifer Bagley) Young, Helena, Ryan Hamilton, Park City, Utah, and Lucas (Cece) Hamilton, Helena.

A private memorial service was held Sunday in Missoula for family at The Springs.

Pat loved animals, especially her dogs. Memorials are suggested to the Humane Society or an organization of the donors choice.