Catherine Morris

Catherine M. Morris, 87, of Homosassa, Fla., died June 20 in Hospice of Citrus Country in Lecanto, Fla.

Morris was a freelance photojournalist for daily and weekly newspapers in Northwest Connecticut. From 1959 to 1963, she was a correspondent at the New Milford Times; from 1963 to 1975 at The News-Times of Danbury; from 1973 to 1979 at The Newtown Bee; and from 1968 to 1978 at the then-Waterbury Republican, all in Connecticut. She continued to work for the Waterbury Republican in 1979 on special assignments.

As a correspondent, Morris covered municipal government and education beats.

She leaves her husband, Robert; two sons, Robert and John; two daughters, Alicia and Nancy; five grandchildren; six great-grandchildren.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondent Nimra Aziz, an undergraduate student in the Northeastern University School of Journalism.