Reid B. Morrison

age 81, of Back Bay in Boston, died peacefully on December 7, 2013.

Reid was born in Boston, the son of Gordon M Morrison, MD and Alice Blodgett Morrison.  He graduated from Choate in 1950 and Harvard College in 1954.  He served honorably in the United States Air Force, with stations in the U.S. and Japan. Reid’s professional life began in the late 1950s as a journalist for the Worcester Telegram and Gazette.  His love of writing and penchant for dropping hand written postcards to friends and family lasted his entire life.  Reid worked for many years for Nordblom Real Estate in commercial leasing and throughout the 1990s for the State of Massachusetts Department of Transportation in the Right of Way Division. Reid was heavily involved in City and State Republican politics.  He was a long-time elected member of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee and served as Chairman of the Republican Finance Committee.  He proudly served as a member of the Presidential Electoral College in 1980 when Ronald Reagan was elected. Reid shared many memorable times with family and friends at his favorite place – Fortunes Rocks, Maine.  He was a very proud member of the Fox Club at Harvard. Other associations included: the Boston Athenaeum, Newport Reading Room, Society of Colonial Wars and the Knockers Club.

Reid is survived by his brothers, Gordon M. Morrison, Jr. of Hopkinton, MA and Peter F. Morrison and his wife Bunny of Kennebunk, ME as well as by four nieces and a nephew, and a cousin, Tina Anderson of California.  Reid is also survived by special friends Katherine “Kitty” Winter of Boston, Marjorie Jones of Boston and Tom Reid of Shrewsbury, MA.

There will be no services at his request.  Interment of ashes will be in the spring at the Morrison family plot in Hope Cemetery, Kennebunk, ME.  Notes and remembrances can be sent to his brothers Gordon or Peter and addressed to Jennifer Morrison, 161 Atkins Bay Lane, North Hero, VT 05474.