Evelyn E. Morrow

Evelyn E. Morrow, 91, died June 28, 2014. Evelyn was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota and graduated from St. Benedicts College in St. Joseph, Minnesota, in 1945. She was a resident of Wichita for over 65 years. Evelyn was the loving wife of 53 years to the late Thomas F. Morrow, M.D.; the mother of Deborah Vaughan (James Vaughan), Kevin Morrow (Cheryl Morrow), Sheila Morrow (Stephen Daney), Tim Morrow (Kevin Callahan), Chris Morrow (Marianne Morrow), Dan Morrow, and grandmother of Will Vaughan, Claire Morrow, Jack Morrow, Hannah Daney and Noah Daney. Evelyns family and friends remember her as a good woman of Catholic faith and Catholic tastes. She was a long-time member of both the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph Catholic Church, a fervent believer who served as a Lector and Eucharistic Minister, transported friends and neighbors to weekly Mass, and believed in the intercession of the saints, noting more than once that St. Anthony had recovered various lost possessions. As a young woman in college, Evelyn began a 70-year subscription to the New Yorker magazine, which fed her appetite for learning aboutand engaging inthe world around her. She routinely read over 100 books each year and was a 30-year member of the Wichita Evergreen Library Book Club. She loved the cycles of life and recorded them in volume after volume of five-year diaries. Through it all, she was a force of nature whose garden thrives to this day with tomatoes on the vine waiting for her to pick them. Evelyn walked the paths and wandered the halls of the Wichita Botanica Gardens, Sedgwick County Zoo and the Wichita Art Museum. She measured her heart rate day after day as a participant in a local aerobic dancing program from her mid-fifties into ripe old age, leaving this earth with a blood pressure of 110/70her heart beating strong and living forever in ours. A Rosary for Evelyn will be recited at 7 p.m., Wednesday, July 2 and the Funeral Mass will be said, 9:30 a.m., Thursday, July 3, both at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Burial services are private. Donations to the Lords Diner are requested in lieu of flowers. Downing Lahey Mortuary West.