Morrison didn’t know Morland when she became mayor but quickly came to like him.
“He was there at council meetings faithfully,” she said. “He was hard-working, and I knew if council members had different points of view and I called on Mark, he would come up with something that we could all agree to.”
Morland also possessed what Morrison called “a wonderful mind.”
But he kept quiet about his physical problems.
While Morland was on the City Council, clues that there might be something wrong began appearing, Morrison said.
Morland sometimes would fall out of his chair, Morrison said, and with his characteristic good sense of humor would joke about being clumsy.