Reacy Morgan Little

Mrs. Reacy Morgan Little, age 84 passed away at the family residence Saturday, September 28, 2013. She was born May 29, 1929 in Vero Beach, Florida the daughter of George Hartford Morgan and Violet Carmichael Mundy Morgan. Reacy’s life was a busy one from the start. As a six year old child she had a newspaper route in the then almost desolate area in the remote area of South Walton County. She was a member of the first class of Bay School in 1936 and later, as was the norm, she came to DeFuniak Springs to attend high school. Rather than the daily commute she lived with Madge and Curt Rutherford at the Florida Hotel where she paid her rent by working in the hotel and across the street at the bus station. It would be at that bus station where she would meet a young navy guy who had been “thumbing a ride” and was picked up by Reece Walters, Reacy’s half sister Ann’s husband who had told him to look her up. Reacy married that young DeFuniak native and she and Jack lived a fulfilled life of work, public service to the county, members of First Methodist Church where they both sang in the Chancel Choir, a live lived between their home in DeFuniak Springs and the home they literally built for theirselves at Eastern Lake, and after retirement a fun filled experience of travel, stateside and international. This quiet, unassuming Southern lady crammed as much living in her 84 years and then exited quietly and unannounced. She is predeceased by her husband Jack Little, her son Jeffrey Morgan Little and her brother George Morgan.

Among survivors are her son, Ken and wife Margaret Ellen “Gator” of Santa Rosa Beach. Her grandchildren, John Morgan “Jack”; Judith Kathryn “Kit” and James Robert. Her sisters-in-law Grace Marse and husband Hugh of Point Washington, Anita Tankersley and husband Tim Peaco of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina and Lorraine Barrett Morgan of Point Washington.

A time of visitation will be held Tuesday, October 1, 2013 from 9:30 until 10 A.M. in First United Methodist Church, Circle Drive, DeFuniak Springs with the funeral beginning at 10:00 A.M. with Dr. Larry Teasley officiating
Burial will follow in Point Washington Cemetery, Point Washington, Florida.