Michael Jay Morse of Pearsall died on Oct. 7 in San Antonio.
Services were held for him Oct. 12 at First Baptist Church in Pearsall. Primrose Funeral Services in Devine had charge of arrangements.
Mike was born Nov. 20, 1958, to Charles Morse Sr. and Beatrice “Bea” Galindo.
He attended Lampasas High School where he played football, along with baseball where he was a catcher.
After high school he worked in a machine shop with his father. He then became a police officer and worked for the Lampasas Police Department.
In 1993, Mike graduated from the game warden academy and was stationed in Rio Grande City, Starr County, where he worked until transferring to Frio County. Then in 2011, Mike reached the rank of game warden captain and oversaw Region 5, District 1 before retiring in the fall of 2019.
In 2020, Mike ran for office and won election to the position of Frio County sheriff, where he worked until his death.
Mike is survived by his wife, Cayce Morse; his daughter Holli Williams and husband Andrew; his son, Cole Morse; his mother, Bea Morse; a brother, Charles Morse Jr.; sister, Maureen Ekrut and husband Kerry; brother and sister-in-law Joe and Sherri Cowan; sisters-in-law Teresa Frank and Sarah Horton; and grandchildren Emmeline, Benjamin, Kahlia and Corabelle Williams.
He also is survived by two aunts, Elia “Lela” Ortiz and Dorothy Kenny; two uncles, O.B. Henderson and Roger Morse; and nieces and nephews Logan, Olivia and Sophie Morse, Abby, Savannah and Ethan Ekrut, and Maci Cowan.
Mike was preceded in death by his father, Charles Morse Sr.; and grandparents Cresencio and Lilly Ortiz, and Marie Mae and Vernon Edwin Morse.
Memorial donations may be made in his name to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation at tpwf.org.
