Robert Milton Morrison, 91, of Kempton, Pennsylvania, passed away in his home on Friday, June 13, 2025.

Born in Elkins, West Virginia, Robert was the youngest son of the late Guy Harold and Mary Ellen Graves Morrison. He had four sisters, Ellen, Becky, Jean, and Ruth. Robert graduated from Elkins High School in 1952. He also attended Mercersburg Academy for one year and graduated with his bachelor's degree in Business Administration from West Virginia University in 1956. He was a U.S. Army veteran and was a Tank Unit Commander at Fort Knox from 1958 to 1960. Robert worked as a textile salesman for forty years, first in the Empire State Building in Manhattan, then in Pennsylvania and later internationally. Through his work, he developed a great interest in beautiful fabrics from around the world.

For forty-two years, Robert was dedicated to his sobriety and found great fellowship with his friends in AA. He loved to entertain friends and family in his home, and he was a natural community builder. He adopted people and always wanted people to feel included. Robert organized weekly meditation groups, hosted spiritual sweat lodge events, and invited people over for his famous buckwheat cakes for breakfast to bring friends together. He always picked up the phone when someone called, and he could always be counted on to call back and follow up. He was not a religious man, but he often said that he'd been blessed by the friendships he'd had. He was a devoted father to his daughter, and he offered that same unwavering support and guidance to so many in the program. He expressed his spirituality by helping others to heal and realize their own strengths, and to identify the truths about their lives to grow as people. More than one lucky person came to view him as a surrogate father figure.

Robert enjoyed all aspects of tending to his home, including gardening, refinishing furniture, cooking, cleaning, and entertaining. He was an expert woodsman, an average fisherman, and a not-so-great beekeeper. Robert loved animals and was a lifelong devoted pet owner of several lucky dogs and cats. He also loved being on the go and just getting in his car and driving. He often spent weekends in New York City, and he was equally at home in Manhattan and Kempton. In the spring and summer months, he could be found happily zipping through his fields mowing or planting a battalion of flowers in his yard that he would cut and give to friends and neighbors or put in a small vase on the bedside table if someone were coming to visit. In his later years, he often rose before dawn and would start his chores, tending to his home and his gardens filled with zinnias, peonies, irises, and wildflowers - anything but roses, because growing up his mother made him tend to the roses behind their home in Elkins.

Robert is survived by his daughter Valerie Mandeville Morrison, his companion of thirty-one years Martha Fraad Haffey, and his cat of twelve years, Mr. Kinkaid. Other surviving close relatives include his sister Ellen's sons Chris Saxman and Michael Saxman; his sister Becky's children Tom Townley, Guy Townley, and Molly Pezold; his sister Ruth's daughter Diana Weidenbacker; his sister Jean's daughter Mary Ellen, and his great nephew Richard Cardot and his great niece Amisha Saxman. In addition, the Wallace family in Mill Creek, West Virginia was a beloved second family to Robert for most of his long life.

A celebration of life memorial service will be held at 3:00pm at The Grove in Kempton, Pennsylvania on August 24, 2025. All of Robert's friends and family are welcome, and The Grove is located at 2758 Route 143, Kempton, PA 19529. Robert will be laid to rest with his parents at Maplewood Cemetery in Elkins, West Virginia at a later date. In lieu of flowers, please consider planting some flowers of your own to remember him by. Leibensperger Funeral Homes, Inc., Hamburg is in charge of arrangements. For online condolences, please visit www.leibenspergerfuneralhome.com.