Sue Rosalie Morgan passed away on November 22, 2006 near San Antonio, Texas. Sue was born in Sterling, Illinois on August 29, 1938.
She is survived by her husband Glen ( Wile E) Morgan of San Antonio, daughter's Stacy Wehnert of Seabrook, Texas, Stephanie Richter of Niles, Illinois, and son Barry Scott Robbins of San Antonio, Texas. Also brothers, William Steinhagen of Monona, Wisconsin, and Thomas Steinhagen, Sr. of Tucson, Arizona. Three grandsons, Tyler, Eric, and Steven, and two granddaughters, BriAnna and Sydney, one great grand son John Tyler, all of whom she dearly loved.
Sue and Glen met in San Antonio in the summer of 1992 and were married in May 2003. They first got into camping shortly after they first met. The first big trip was tenting all the way to Illinois and Wisconsin. Sue decided that this hobby was going to work for them but it would be a lot more fun in a popup, so that is the way it really got started. After a couple of years came the travel trailer and then later a 5th wheel.
Highlight of all of her trips was meeting family "half way"¯ in Arkansas, Missouri, or wherever. Sue held an annual "Grandma Camp"¯ in 2005 and 2006 at her brother Bill's farm near Reedsburg, Wisconsin. Four of the grandchildren BriAnna, Eric, Steven and Sydney attended. There she taught them how to scrapbook, redo T shirts to look cool, and all kinds of other crafts. The 5er was loaded to the brim with crafts going to the camps. Seven mile bike rides with them was a piece of cake.
She and Glen got into the Texas Boomers by a chance meeting of couple at a KOA park Texarkana. They said they were going to a rally in Waco and ask if we would like to join them there. It was on the way back to San Antonio and why not, another day camping is a lot more fun than a day working!
After that rally, Sue made sure she and Glen made all the rallies that they could. She loved all of the members of the Texas Boomers as she did IRV2 members she met at the national rally in Boerne, TX.
Sue was not afraid to let herself go and have fun in everything she did (the picture's can attest to this). And this inspired all others around her to have fun and enjoy life. Sue had a green thumb as those of you have seen when you visited us in our home. She loved her garden and yard and flowers. And as Stephanie said she is a "gardener of life"¯, she lived it to the fullest extent making sure that no toes were stepped on and that not one person was left out.
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Sue was an active member of San Antonio DT/SW Optimist Club which did a lot of work with the Sunshine Cottage, a school for hearing impaired children, and a member of the Community Bible Church.
Sue was buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio. Sue will be missed by all that knew and loved her.
Sue at the Texas Boomers Tacky Party in October 2004
*** Stacy's Tribute ***
<span class="ev_code_BLUE">words of encourage to Sue's family and friends by her daughter who spoke at Sue's funeral</span>
On behalf of Glen and my brother and sister, I'd like to thank everyone for being here today to help us celebrate mom's life. Mom loved a party, and I suspect she would be greatly pleased to see so many of her friends and family together in one place.
When my family was visiting with Martha yesterday, Stephanie used a phrase that summarized all that I am about to share. Stephanie said: "Mother was a Gardner of Life."¯ Glen's back yard is proof that mom did indeed have a green thumb, but more than that, she was one that nurtured life in our family, in her friends, when she was camping, working, walking in the neighborhood; in fact everywhere she went.
She loved her family and we often gathered to camp together. In fact she began the annual "Grandma Camp"¯ in Wisconsin on Uncle Bill's farm. She would gather her grandchildren for the sole purpose of making memories. They always completed a craft or two together: birdhouses, T-shirts, Scrapbooks, Wallets out of duct tape: all the while nurturing those grandchildren to bloom and grow, healthy and strong.
She and Glen were great friends long before they married 4½ years ago. She loved Glen dearly and they knew how to have fun together. They laughed often and loved much. Glen says he was a great "pack mule"¯ for all of mom's great finds. She loved to drag him to antique shops to look for items to complete her current collection, each specially chosen to add to the garden, her house, or to our houses.... Apples, Coffee Grinders, Frogs for Scott; Crosses for me; and Santa's for Stephanie.
Education was very important to mother. That's why I think she loved her coffee business at UTSA and SAC. She used her business to engage the students in meaningful conversation. She was truly interested in their lives and they knew it. Years later, she might see one of those students and they could easily pick up their conversation where they left off.
She worked with the Optimist Club, receiving the President's Award for 2005-2006. She loved to work hard, to serve others, to give all she could, and to live life to the fullest.
She was a great friend as many of you from the Texas Boomers camping club can attest. She could find out more about people in one conversation than most of us can in a lifetime, because she had a way of gaining their trust from the very first "hello."¯ She was a friend you could count on and the kind of friend everyone hopes to have in life.
She taught us by her example to live from the inside out. She was as beautiful on the inside as she was on the outside. She was always there for Glenn, her friends, those she served in volunteer work, and for her family.
I will miss my mother, my best friend, my confidant and my role model. Mom surely was a "Gardner of Life."¯ Your life, my life, our lives.
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