Remembering one of McCook's finest storytellers

Monday, August 9, 2010

In 2004 McCook (and Nebraska) lost one of its finest storytellers, when Frank Benner Morrison passed away at the McCook hospital, just a few days short of his 99th birthday. Frank was born in Colorado, where his parents, Frank and Viva had planned to homestead, in the eastern part of the state. However, her husband, Frank, died when young Frank was only two years old and Viva chose to take Frank and his three sisters back to Manhattan Kansas, to live with Viva's parents, Jacob and Charlotte Benner.

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