Fan Barbara Morrison

Fan passed away peacefully at her home in Omaha on December 6, 2021, from complications of dementia. She was preceded in death by parents, Carl and Minnie Hunt; and daughter, Georgia Gottbrecht. She will be lovingly remembered by her husband of 50 years, Bruce Morrison; daughter, Carla (Mark) Bregman; and sons, Ted (Randi Bregman) Gottbrecht, Monte Gottbrecht, and Scott Morrison; grandchildren, Brook Bregman, Sonja (Corey Johns) Gottbrecht, and Carl Gottbrecht; and great-grandchildren, Sorin Johns, and Bryce Johns.

Fan, who lived most of her life in Council Bluffs, was raised by her parents Carl and Minnie Hunt, who started the Hunt Speedway Grocery on Fifth Avenue during the Great Depression years and operated it until the 1960s. As a child, Fan helped her parents in the store stocking shelves and cooking delicious meals for them in her apartment behind the store while her parents worked. She loved to swim, ice skate, and roller skate. Fan was a 1947 graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs.

Fan was a wonderful loving daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, and a great supporter of her family who was greatly loved by them in return. She struggled with severe heart disease in the last 50 years of her life but worked continuously to rehabilitate herself so she could provide a normal life for her family, even after she had to teach herself to read again following complications from her first heart surgery. In her later years, she suffered from severe dementia but never failed to do her best to enjoy life and to provide emotional support for her family. To her family, Fan was a truly heroic and inspirational figure.

VISITATION: Sunday, December 12 from 5-8pm at Westlawn-Hillcrest Funeral Home. FUNERAL SERVICE: Monday, December 13 at 11am followed by INTERMENT at the adjoining Westlawn-Hillcrest Memorial Park.