Graveside services will be at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday December 27, 2016, in Kress Cemetery. Mr. Morton will be in state at the funeral home on Tuesday from 9:00-12:00 noon.

Robert was born on September 24, 1923, in Plainview, Texas, to Wiley Marvin and Mary Louisa (Waller) Morton. He graduated from Kress High School in 1941 and went on to graduate with a Bachelor's Degree in Business from the University of Texas in Austin in the late 1940s. He was constituted in the Army of the United States in the 140th Ordnance Heavy Maintenance Company (FA) in World War II February 1943 April 1946. He married Stella M. Strickland on December 23, 1947.

Robert was manager of Morton Grain Elevator, retired from the Kress Post Office and was a longtime school board member for Kress Independent School District.

Robert enjoyed playing bridge with his friends at Brookdale Remington Park where he lived. He loved his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Robert was a member of Second Baptist Church in Lubbock.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Stella, in November 2015, his parents, one sister, and two grandchildren.

Those left to cherish his memory are his three daughters, Brenda Campbell and husband, James of Lubbock, Rebecca Pyle and husband, Ron of Arlington, Texas, and Beverly Kinnibrugh and husband, Randal of Vera, Texas; four grandchildren, Kyle Kinnibrugh, and Sarah Hilton and husband, Jared, Nathan Pyle, Ashley Jumper and husband, Stephen; and five great-grandchildren, Jocelyn, Annabelle, and Cooper Hilton, and Caitlin and Joshua Jumper.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to the charity of your choice.