Nina Wynnette Park Morrison of Meridian passed away Feb. 15, 2019. She was born in Atlanta on June 9, 1941. She graduated from Southwest DeKalb High School and attended Georgia State University. She is a sister of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority and was selected the outstanding member of her pledge class.
Nina was married to Herschel James “Jim” Morrison on June 3, 1962.
She worked as an office manager for the Georgia Wildlife Federation and Jim Morrison and Associates, an outdoor trade show company, and as a medical transcriptionist. She was a bookkeeper at the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island. At the Marine Institute, she enjoyed walking on the beach at lunchtime and collecting sharks’ teeth. One of her collections of teeth was featured in a photograph on the on the Marine Institute’s webpage. She retired from UGAMI.
Nina is a former regent of the St. Andrews Parish chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a member of Darien United Methodist Church and a former member of the United Methodist Women and the Darien Lions Club.
Nina’a first love was her family – husband, daughter, son, six grandchildren, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother and family.
She loved flowers and always wanted them around her. She was an avid reader of many books. She enjoyed weekly walks and talks with her neighbors on Seabreeze Drive.
Nina was predeceased by her mother, Nina Wynnette Cleveland Park and her father Robert Wilson Park. She is survived by her husband, Jim, her daughter, Nina Lynn Morrison Brook (Steven) of Columbia, South Carolina, and her son James Robert Morrison (Jennifer) of Sugar Hill along with six grandchildren, Arthur Benjamin Brook, Joseph Morrison Brook, Robert Cleveland Brook, Alexander Dean Brook, James Richard Morrison, Ava Grace Morrison. Also surviving is Nina’s brother, Cleve Park (Becca) of Newborn along with four nieces and nephews and eight great nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19 at Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home, Brunswick. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 20 at Darien United Methodist Church. Burial to follow in St. Andrews Cemetery.
