BARTLETT — Friends and family gathered at the Morrell Family Community Complex on Sunday to dedicate a granite bench to mark the 20th anniversary of the passing of late Story Land owner and community benefactor Stoney Morrell.
Twenty years ago on Oct. 22, the community lost the quiet visionary to cancer at the age of 50, but his spirit lives on at the complex he helped to create.
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