2007
Morrell Joseph Berry, 86, who worked for Washington area moving companies as a salesman providing cost estimates for
potential moves, died Oct. 1 at his home in Rockville after a heart attack.
He retired from E.I. Kane's Office Movers in the early 1990s after more than 15 years with the commercial moving company.
Earlier, he worked for Victory Van.
For the past 15 years, he held part-time assignments for Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring.
He was born in Philadelphia and raised in Washington, where he attended McKinley Technology High School. He later
received a general equivalency diploma.
He joined the Marine Corps in 1938 and during World War II participated in the campaigns for Guadalcanal and Cape
Gloucester in New Guinea. He also was a gunnery sergeant aboard the aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard.
He was a founding member of what is now the Shrine of St. Jude Catholic Church in Rockville and participated in fundraising
drives for its construction and later expansion.
His wife of 45 years, Alberta Opalko Berry, died in 1996.
Survivors include three children, Maureen Raimo of Olney, Joseph Berry of Brunswick and John Berry of Washington; and four
grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein