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 1922 - 2010 (88 years)
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| Name |
Aubrey Morris |
| Birth |
11 Jan 1922 |
Roswell, Fulton, Georgia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
13 Apr 2010 |
Milton, Fulton, Georgia |
| Person ID |
I940 |
Georgia Society Member Graves Registry |
| Last Modified |
4 Jul 2011 |
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| Notes |
- Aubrey Morris, one of Atlanta's journalstic titans, died at his home in Milton after a bout with cancer. He was 88.
Morris was a teenager when he got his first reporting job, coverning Roswell for both The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution. After graduating from the University of Georgia, Morris returned to the Journal where he spent 13 years as a police reporter, covering such major stories as the fire that killed 119 people at the Winecoff Hotel in 1946.
But Morris is best remember as the signature voice of Georgia broadcasting. He was a pioneer in Atlanta radio, going to work for WSB in 1957 and serving as the stations' first news director.
"That man was lengendary", said Condace Pressley, assistant program director for WSB-AM. She began working for the station a year before Morris retired in 1987. "He was so nice, so kind."
Few reporters could match his sources. Morris interviewed every U.S. president of his day, from Harry Truman to Ronald Regan. and he was the only reporter to accompany Mayor Ivan Allen to Paris in 1962 after the Orly Airport plane crash that claimed the lives of many of Atlanta's cultural and civic leaders.
"He was the reporter's reporter," recalled Scott Slade, morning show host at WSB-AM.
Morris is survived by his wife, Tera and three daughters, Mary Rebecca, Rhoda Ellen and Susan Katherine.
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