Michael J. Morse

Michael Jay Morse went to be with the Lord on Monday, October 7th in San Antonio. 

He was born November 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 where he oversaw Region 5, District 1 before retiring in the fall of 2019. In 2020, Mike ran and won the office of Frio County Sheriff where he worked until he passed. 

Mike is survived by his wife, Cayce Morse; his daughter Holli Williams and husband, Andrew, and his son, Cole Morse. His mother, Bea Morse; his brother, Charles Morse, Jr.; his sister Maureen Ekrut and husband, Kerry; brother and sister-in-law Joe and Sherri Cowan; sister-in-laws. Teresa Frank and Sarah Horton. Grandchildren: Emmeline, Benjamin, Kahlia and Corabelle Williams. 

He is also survived by two aunts, Elia (Lela) Ortiz and Dorothy Kenny, and two uncles, O.B. Henderson and Roger Morse. Along with nieces/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.; grandparents, Cresencio and Lilly Ortiz and Marie Mae and Vernon Edwin Morse. 

Memorial donations, in lieu of flowers, may be made to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation at tpwf.org in Mike’s memory.