Obit – Ms. Pat Morris Ham
Ms. Pat Morris Ham of Lebanon departed this life at 8:58 a.m. Monday morning March 2, 2026 to enter her eternal home at the age of 89. Her family was at her bedside. Mrs. Ham was a resident of the Pavilion Assisted Living in Lebanon.
Funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home were be conducted on Sunday afternoon March 8th at 1 p.m. Burial followed in the Gore family lot in the Garden of Gethsemane at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.
She was the tenth born of eleven children, and the last surviving of seven daughters and four sons born to the late longtime Monoville Community merchant Elisha Thomas Morris Sr. who died at the age of 58 on June 26, 1949 and Helen Caphira Key Morris who died at the age of 81 on September 29, 1976 and was born Mary Patricia Morris in the Monoville Community on December 30, 1936.
Siblings preceding her in death were; Gerald Waterman Morris who died September 22, 1917 at 1 year of age, Henry Hart Morris who died October 2, 1986 at the age of 71, Jessie Carol Morris Gore who died July 7, 1997 at the age of 64, Abby Sue Robbins who died December 18, 1997 at the age of 72, Ruth Morris Maggart who died April 3, 1999 at the age of 78, Grace Evelyn Hendrick who died September 22, 2003 at the age of 81, E. T. Morris Jr. who died May 12, 2005 at the age of 77, Kenneth Edwin Morris who died December 9, 2009 at the age of 79, Linda Lou Brakebush who died October 30, 2010 at the age of 71, and Pauline Morris Woosley Guile who died June 26, 2015 at the age of 97.
Ms. Ham was a member of the 1955 graduating class at Smith County High School where it was stated of her in the ’55 annual that; “No oath too binding for a lover.”
As a freshman she was secretary of her class, a member of the science club where she also served as secretary there, was a member of the F.H.A. club and attended the state F.H.A. convention, was a football queen attendant both her sophomore and senior year, Safety club her junior year and a member of the junior play cast, in the dramatic club her junior year and a cheerleader both her junior and senior year, and her senior year, she served as a secretary of the “C” club and on the annual staff. She was voted by her class mates as the cutest girl in the senior class.
In 1960 she received her Bachelor of Science in business from Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in Cookeville (now Tennessee Technological University).
She was then hired as a sales representative for Bell South Telephone Co. which upon her retirement was AT&T Communications.
Ms. Ham was saved as a young lady at the then Peyton Creek Missionary Baptist Church in the Monoville Community, where her family attended and were longtime members.
Survivors include her son, Rob Ham and wife Jennifer of Lebanon; grandson, Brayden Ham of the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; nieces & nephews, Suzanne Gore, Johnny Woosley, Marie Litchford, Tom Morris, Melinda Mooris, Kent Brackebush, Beth Loudermilk and best friend, Polly Manning.
The Ham family has requested memorials to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
