Fannie Ellen Angeline Morgan age 104 years, 4 months, and 12 days of Whitley City, Kentucky, passed away Thursday, March 31, 2016 at the Signature Healthcare of McCreary.
Funeral services were held Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 4:00 pm at the Hickman-Strunk Funeral Home with Bro. Mike Gregory officiating. Burial followed in the Pine Knot Cemetery.
She was born November 19, 1911 in Sawyer, Kentucky, the fifth child of Willis H. Morgan and Sarah (Lawson) Morgan. In 1924, her father was offered a job as a cashier with the new Pine Knot Banking Company so Fannie and her family moved to the "boom town" of Coolidge/Whitley City.
Fannie began her teaching career at an early age; teaching at Mill Creek, Sawyer, Layford, and Yamacraw. In 1943 she started working as a secretary for the McCreary County Board of Education. During this time she drove daily to Union College to further her education. After accepting a teaching position with the Fayette County School System, Fannie left McCreary County.
Fannie retired after teaching for forty years and returned to McCreary County where she began her second career as a bookkeeper for Winchester, Patton, and Burgess Medical Clinic. She drove herself to and from work every day until a month before her 100th birthday. Deciding to let her niece Betty or her husband Elmer drive her to work, Fannie continued working until 2012. It was then she suffered a fall and broke a rib, resulting in her being hospitalized and later being sent to the McCreary County Rehabilitation Center.
She was a member of The Whitley City United Methodist Church since 1936 and served as treasurer until her hospitalization; The William Whitley Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, and The Charles Gatliff Chapter Sisters of the American Revolution since 1974. In her spare time, she enjoyed travelling and had visited many foreign countries. Fannie was also a loyal member of the Republican Party.
Preceding her in death are her parents; a sister, Bertie Ann; twin sister, Nannie Susan; brothers, Benjamin Elias and John Sampson; step-brothers, James Frank, Carl C., William Rufus, and George Fredrick; a step-sister, Hallie Mae Morgan.
Survivors include a special niece and caregivers, Betty Jo Olson and husband, Elmer of Whitley City, Kentucky, and Allen Winchester and wife, Portia of Lexington, Kentucky; nieces and nephews, Virginia Taylor of Parkers Lake, Kentucky, Calvin Morgan of Florida, Dorothy Craddock of Delray Beach, Florida, Bertie Evans of Ocala, Florida, Jean Bertash of Parkers Lake, Kentucky, Louie Morgan of Loveland, Ohio, Joan Johnson of Sterling Heights of Michigan, and Jean Scargal of Centerline, Michigan; and numerous friends.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggest donations to be made to the Whitley City United Methodist Church. PO Box 455 Whitley City, KY 42653.
Hickman-Strunk Funeral Home served the family of Miss Fannie Morgan.

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