Michael Don Morris was born December 30, 1941 in Oklahoma City, Ok   He married Beverly Ross September 12, 1964 in Nowata, Ok.  They had 2 children, 7 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren.

Mike's first job was a paper route at 9 years old in Meeker, OK for the Tulsa Tribune.  After that there were very few times he didn't have a job. Mike's father was a Santa Fe railroad track foreman, so the family moved a lot.

He quickly made new friends when they moved.  His classmates elected him class president – in the 9th and 12th grades.  Those actions were a positive influence on him.  It made him expect that good things could happen to him.

Mike served 4 years in the Navy, he needed the maturity and discipline to accept, "whatever cards he was dealt".  He was a Radar man assigned to amphibious ships.  His squadron was responsible for landing some 5000 marines on beach—safely.  He became a Radar man 2nd Class (E-5 NCO).  His final assignment was a Beach Jumper.  He was the lead NCO of nine men who were supposed to land on a beach six hours before the marines landed and 50 miles up the coast.  They were supposed to confuse the enemy into believing that they were the landing forces.

At 22 years old and post military, he married Beverly Ross and received a scholarship to Oklahoma State University in a Radiation/Nuclear Science program, which was perfect for his intellectual preferences.  After graduation, he was hired at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory as a Radiation Safety Specialist.  He worked with some of the world's greatest minds as they built atomic bombs, nuclear reactors and other nuclear research projects.  He also took over the nuclear counting lab.

He went to night school and got another degree while at LASL. His alma mater, OSU, offered him a teaching position because of his experiences. His philosophy for teaching quickly became two pronged.  1st he wanted students to know and understand the basic principles of the profession. 2nd, he insisted that they learn how to think.  He was a good professor.

The same "hand of providence" continued while he was on the faculty at OSU. He started a Diagnostic Medical Physicist consulting service to test x-ray machines for hospitals.  The Diagnostic Medical Physicist profession did not even exist when he first began consulting.  However, with the advent of modern electronics and computers, it soon evolved into a very satisfying career.

He served four years as an Oklahoma State legislator and another year as the State Chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party.

Through his entire journey of life, he always remembers that he grew up a "gypsy boy" moving with his family from town to town as his father's job demanded.  The character qualities that he learned during his youth, he shared and taught to the world.

Mike is preceded in death by his two daughters, Deidra and Karen and his parents, Leonard and Gladys Morris, and two brothers, Roy Morris and Ronald Morris.

He is survived by his wife Beverly; grandchildren, Michaiah Hamel, Salem Dostert and husband Cameron, Nathanael Brown and wife MiKayla, Josiah Brown, Jason Brown and wife Allie, Christopher Graves, and Kyra Underwood; great-grandchildren, Jaime Hamel, Emma Hamel, Jensen Hamel, Beau Dostert, Tatum Dostert, Dak Dostert, Miracle Brown, Galex Brown, and London Brown; and sisters, Wilma Smaligo, Margaret Gaylord and Linda Dixon.; and sisters, Wilma Smaligo, Margaret Gaylord and Linda Dixon.