Walter Brooks Morgan Sr.

Walter B. Morgan died on the 22nd of September 2010, at the age of 93. He was a fair and generous man who always tried to do the right thing. Walter Morgan was born in 1917 in Dallas, Texas. In 1939, he graduated from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was Grand Chancellor and president of the law school. After practicing as a young lawyer in Crockett, Texas, he spent thirty years as a trial lawyer with Exxon USA and its predecessor companies, retiring in 1982 as the head of the litigation department. He was a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers and many other organizations. In 1940, he married the love of his life, Ann Morgan, who died in 1984.

Walter Morgan is survived by his daughter, Anne Morgan Barrett, and his son, Brooks Morgan and his wife Janet Mortenson, as well as by his grandchildren, Richard Barrett and his wife Lily and son Eric; Kaki Barrett and her husband Paul Smith and children Paul and Morgan; John Barrett; David Barrett and his wife Sunny and son David; and Nick Barrett and his wife Brooke Wright. His grandchildren’s devotion to him was a tribute to the way he lived his life and the example he set.

Friends are invited to a visitation from six until half-past seven o’clock in the evening on Friday, the 24th of September, at Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.

A family burial service will occur in Crockett.

Memorial contributions may be made to Houston Baptist University, Office of Advancement, 7502 Fondren, Houston, TX, 77074; or to Houston Habitat for Humanity, 3750 N. McCarty, Houston, TX, 77029.