This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MORSE, RUSSELL, OLIVER, COX, MCARTHUR Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zZB.2ACE/193 Message Board Post: Newspaper; The East Oregonian Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon Morse, Richard Scott Russell The East Oregonian October 3, 1972 Hermiston Man Charged With Child’s Murder A Hermiston man, Dennis Bryan Morse, 22, has been charged with murder in the death of his stepson. Morse is being held in the Umatilla County Jail at Pendleton. The child, Richard Scott Russell Morse, 13 months, died at 7 p.m. Saturday at Good Shepherd Hospital in Hermiston as a result of injuries from a blow to the head, said Sheriff Robert Oliver. Morse was arrested Monday. Morse, Rt 1, Box 518, Hermiston, lists his occupation as laborer. He is a native of Pendleton. Morse weighs 180 pounds and is five feet 11 inches in height. Morse and his wife, Marla Kay, have been married only a short time. Among the child’s survivors are his grandparents, Mr. And Mrs. Ray Cox, Stanfield, and Mr. And Mrs. Ellis Morse, Hermiston, and great-grandparents Mr. And Mrs. Len Cox, Seneca, Mo. Graveside services were held at the Hermiston City Cemetery today with the Rev. Harold McArthur officiating.