Clara May Dyer Collection
Description
Collection consist of correspondence, programs, photographs, and other material relating to Clara May Dyer Morse. Born in Maryville, Tennessee in 1895, Clara May Dyer married Roy B. Morse in Lamar, Colorado in 1918. The couple had two sons, Francis Jerome (b. 1919) and Norman Roi (b. 1921). In 1932, following the death of Roy Morse, they relocated to Denver, where both boys attended East High School. By 1938 both Francis and Norman had enlisted in the Navy, serving together on the U.S.S. Arizona. Both Morse sons died during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. In 1942, Clara May Morse graduated from the 5th Corps Red Cross Nurses Aid Program, and later worked at a number of hospitals in Denver as a nurse. Portions of this collection are excerpted in "The Day Clara May Morse Died: Pearl Harbor and One Mother's Heartbreak" (Colorado History, Autumn 1991), edited by Clark Secrest.
Object Information
Date Created:
1928-1978
Local ID:
MSS.453
Collection:
Manuscript Collection
Credit Line:
Morse Family Estate; gift, 1949, 1982.
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated
