Margaret Mary Morrey, 77, of Blue Springs died Thursday, Oct. 1, 1998, following a brief illness.

She was born Nov. 9, 1920, in Omaha, Neb. She and Thomas F. Morrey were married in the early 1940s.

Morrey was formerly of Festus, Cape Girardeau, and Coffeyville, Kan. She received a bachelor of science degree in education from St. Mary's College in Xavier, Kan., in 1942.

While in Cape Girardeau she was a member of the League of Women Voters, American Association of University Women, and St. Vincent's Sodality. She was a contributing columnist to the diocesan newspaper The Mirror.

In Coffeyville she tutored children, served with Meals on Wheels and Welcome Wagon, taught CCD classes, and was a eucharistic minister.

Survivors include her husband; five daughters, Mary Cresto of Union City, Calif., Monica Bayer of Gainesville, Fla., Rosemary Gianelli of Stockton, Calif., Jane Parkin of Nashua, N.H., Ellen Trakas of Blue Springs; two sons, Joseph Morrey of St. Joseph, Tom Morrey of Morrison, Colo.; a sister, Genevieve Lueckenhoff of Kansas City; and 18 grandchildren.

Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. John LaLande Catholic Church in Blue Springs. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery at Coffeyville.

Friends may call at the church from 9 a.m. until service time.