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Obituary: Elmer Morley - Founder, Maritime Professional Training

August 19, 2015

Elmer Morley (Photo: MPT)
Elmer Morley (Photo: MPT)
March 20, 1930 – August 17, 2015
 
Elmer Morley, Maritime Professional Training’s founder, long time chief engineering instructor, father, grandfather, great grandfather and loving husband, lost his battle with pancreatic cancer in the early morning hours August 17.
 
He departed holding the hand of his wife, Beverly, and gazing into her loving eyes. His other great loves were his family and Maritime Professional Training, the school he founded in 1983. 
 
Morley will be honored with a public service at Rio Vista Community Church, located at 880 S. Federal Hwy in Fort Lauderdale at 2pm on Saturday, August 22.

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