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Clyde A. Morris

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The Downey Eagle 
Friday, June 11, 1999
Vol. 7 No. 16

Downey surgeon Clyde A. Morris is mourned
DOWNEY-Clyde Aumond Morris, M.D., died at his home in Downey Thursday, June 3. He was born 
June 25, 1922 in St. Louis, Missouri. After growing up in St. Louis, he was called to military service in 
1942 and served for four years as an army pharmacist in Italy, achieving the rank of sergeant. On his 
discharge in 1946, he married Marylene Hubert of St. Louis, and moved with her to California where 
he attended La Sierra College of Riverside and the College of Medical Evangelists, now Loma Linda 
University Medical School, from which he graduated in 1953. In 1958 he completed his general surgery 
residency at White Memorial in Los Angeles. He opened a medical surgery practice in Downey in September 
of 1958, and began the Downey Community Hospital Emergency Room in several houses across from the 
Hospital which was then located on Fifth Street. His emergency room commitment put him on-call 24 hours 
a day, seven days a week, for one year. In 1961 he was admitted to the American Board of Surgery and the 
National Board. Clyde was instrumental in the planning and development of the present Downey Community 
Hospital. He served two terms as Chief of Staff of DCH. He was an active member of the Downey Seventh-day 
Adventist Church and conducted several community-based "Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking" clinics. He retired 
from medical-surgical practice in 1989 after 31 years. Survivors include his wife, Marylene of Downey; a 
brother, Thayer Morris of Montrose, Colorado; children Kathi Wild of Redlands, Pastor Kevin Morris of Downey, 
Dean Morris of Santa Fe Springs, Karen Jean Davidson of San Bernardino; and five grandchildren. Services were 
conducted yesterday (Thursday) at Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier.