Barbara Jo Soderquist Morgan

Barbara Jo (Soderquist) Morgan born May 9th, 1942 in Bay City

Michigan. She married John Michael Morgan Dec 31st, 1961 while

both were attending Michigan Tech University in Houghton,

Michigan. Daughter Leslie was born in Hancock, Michigan January,

1963, and upon graduation from Michigan Tech in June that year the

family began what would begin Barbara’s role as an Army Wife and

mother. She raised a second daughter Amy (Morgan) Baker born

April, 1965 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. She had six grandchildren.

While her husband was twice, year-long combat deployed to South

Vietnam, she admirably managed all family matters and developed

financial plans for their future, While doing this for 28 years as an

Army Wife, she also worked as an Administrative Assistant for senior

Amy officers in (then) West Germany and Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Upon

their retirement from active duty in 1992 at Fort Leonard Wood,

Missouri she moved with her husband to Stafford, Virginia where she

worked professionally for HR Block as a tax preparer. In 1997 they

moved to Holden Beach, North Carolina where she applied

community support skills she learned as an Army Wife during the

time her husband served as Town Manager. They decided to move to

Ridgeway, Virginia in 2002 so as to be close to daughter Leslie and

her family. She was an extremely skilled “quilter” and enjoyed

working with others equally talented in the Virginia Foothills Quilt

Guild. Unfortunately, physical limitations and dementia made the

later years of her life very challenging and she spent the final year of her life in Martinsville Health and Rehab skilled nursing facility

and Mountain Valley Hospice in Martinsville, Virginia. She passed

away on November 12, 2024 and is buried at Mountain View

Cemetery in Ridgeway, Virginia.