Ernest “Ernie” A. Morley, T/SGT-USAF-Retired- 83, of Brandon, Florida will have a funeral service at 11:30 AM, Friday, January 6, 2017 at Florida National Cemetery, 6502 SW 102nd Avenue, Bushnell, Florida 33513. Honor guards from Mac Dill Air Force Base and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #10209 will be officiating. The family is requesting that all personnel assemble at the Florida National Cemetery from 11:00 AM until service time. A celebration of life ceremony will take place at 4:00 at the Eagles Club on the corner of Mt. Carmel and Front Street.
Ernie is native of Lawrence, Massachusetts and a local resident of Brandon since 1973. He moved here with his family from Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio following his retirement from the military. T/SGT Morley retired from the United States Air Force after serving during the Korean War and Vietnam War Era. Ernie was a planner and estimator for the United States Air Force his whole career and retired the second time from the 6th Air Base Group, Mac Dill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida. During his career, he was awarded the Air Force Longevity service ribbon with 4 Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters; National Defense Service Medal with 1 Bronze Service Star; United States Air Force Good Conduct Medal with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster and completed the USAF GPPS Programming Course.
T/SGT Morley was a Episcopalian by faith and is preceded in death by his parents, George and Hannah (Mill) Morley, siblings and his first wife, Barbara Morley and presently survived by his present wife, Frances Atkins of Brandon, Florida; sons: Richard Morley and his wife, Stephanie of Riverview, Florida; William Morley and his wife, Deborah of Plant City, Florida and Michael Morley of Tampa, Florida; two daughters; Karen Matlock of Bellaire, Texas and Theresa Ward of Holiday, Florida; two sisters, Bertha Rothwell of Bradford, Massachusetts and Dorothy Haney of Methuen, Massachusetts; eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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To the Morley Family: What a great friend we have lost. Rarely a day passes without some remembrance of the always positive, always upbeat, Ernie, and his stories of life lived! His infectious personality has endured during these 40+ years since our famous Electronic Doors! You will all be in our prayers as you send him on his way to be with his beloved Barb. And we will remember the large hole that will be left in those remaining. God Bless! Paul and Dee