Mary Jane "Jinx" Bull Morris

grandmother, passed away peacefully December 27, 2022. Jinx was a Jacksonville native, born in 1929 at Saint Vincent’s Hospital. She grew up in Timuquana Estates,

graduated from Robert E. Lee High School and Ward-Belmont College in Nashville Tennessee. She was a member of the 1949 Jacksonville Debutante Coterie. In 1952, after a whirlwind engagement, she married Lt. JG Max K. Morris, and embarked on a wonderful marriage that covered much of the world and lasted for over five decades. In her forties she returned to college to earn her bachelor’s degree at Marymount University in Virginia. She was a loving and supportive mother and wife who created many home bases for this Navy family. Throughout their marriage Jacksonville remained first choice for schools and vacations when possible.

Upon Max’s retirement from the Navy in 1977, they moved back to Jacksonville full-time. Jinx was active in the Jacksonville community as a member of the Symphony Guild, serving as a docent at the Cummer Museum and as a member of the Stokesia Garden Club. Together she and Max travelled the world visiting every continent except Antarctica but always enjoyed coming home to Jacksonville and were often seen on long walks together in their Ortega neighborhood.

Jinx was preceded in death by her husband, RADM Max King Morris, her parents, Dr. I. William Bull and Emaline G. Bull, her brother Dr. Thomas Bull, and her daughter, Jane Morris Estes. She is survived by her son William H. Morris (Beth); her daughter Mary Stuart Harbison (Mark); grandchildren Stephanie Estes Rodriguez (Tony); Mary Jane Morris Allegro (Greg); John William Morris (fiancée Barbara Sears); Elizabeth Stuart Morris; Richard Harbison and William Harbison. She is also survived by two great- grandchildren, Bade and Harbeck Allegro.

A private memorial service will take place at Oaklawn Cemetery on January 7, 2023. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Riverside Presbyterian Church or a charity that you love.