Fred Morton

Carl Fred Morton, 91, of Louisiana died Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 at St. Joseph’s Hospital West in Lake St. Louis after a brief illness.

A Celebration of Life service will be at 12:30 p.m., Wednesday at the First Baptist Church in Louisiana.

He was born Nov. 19, 1926 in Louisiana at the home of his parents, Clarietta Cecilia Stanley Morton and Henry Harrison Morton, Sr. He was married to Bonnie Lee Hudson on Aug. 28, 1949 at the First Baptist Church in Louisiana. She preceded him in death.

Fred attended Louisiana High School and enlisted in the United States Army when he was a senior in high school. He was deployed to the Philippines to serve in World War II while he was still in his senior year of high school.

Upon returning from the war, he worked as a butcher and owned a taxi company in Louisiana before settling into a position at the Hercules Chemical Plant. While working at Hercules, he opened Morton’s Sale Barn and Auction Service in 1967 where he and his family ran weekly auctions every Saturday morning.

He retired from Hercules (then Dyno Nobel) in 1988 and retired from auctioneering in 1991. Shortly after retiring from auctioneering, he took a job at Abel Oil Company where he worked part time each morning until he was 86 years old. Mr. Morton attended Elmwood Church.

He is survived by two daughters, Rebecca Sousa of Louisiana, and Sherry Cox of Louisiana; and one son, Mark Morton and wife, Carla of Bowling Green; five living grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to the American Legion Auxiliary Post 370, Pike County Home Care and Hospice, Elmwood Church, or the First Baptist Church.

Collier Funeral Home in Louisiana was in charge of cremation rites.