Della Marie Morley

2009 National Memorial Silver Cross Mother - Della Marie Morley

Della Marie Morley

National Memorial Silver Cross Mother Della Marie Morley. (Photo: Royal Canadian Legion)

(Photo: Royal Canadian Legion)
National Memorial Silver Cross Mother Della Marie Morley. (Photo: Royal Canadian Legion)(Photo: Royal Canadian Legion)
Della Marie Morley

National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother Della Marie Morley. (© Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada represented by the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, 2009. Photo credit: Sergeant Serge Gouin, Rideau Hall. Reproduced with the permissi

(Photo: © Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada represented by the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, 2009.)
National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother Della Marie Morley. (© Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada represented by the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, 2009. Photo credit: Sergeant Serge Gouin, Rideau Hall. Reproduced with the permissi(Photo: © Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada represented by the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, 2009.)

Mrs. Della Marie Morley of East Saint Paul, Manitoba, was the 2009 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother. During the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on November 11, 2009, she laid a wreath at the base of the National War Memorial on behalf of all mothers who have lost a child in military service to Canada.

On September 18, 2006, her son, Corporal Keith Ian Morley, was killed by a suicide bicycle bomber while on foot patrol in Afghanistan. He was serving with A Company, 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry from Shilo, Manitoba.

Originally from Elkhorn, Mrs. Morley attended school there and in Virden before going to study at Western Christian College in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. She married Russel Morley and they raised two children, Keith and Shannon Jaye. Widowed in 2003, she later remarried Fred Duna.