For the column last week, I included a letter I received from Dittmar Mundel. At the end of the column I gave an appeal for information on the two remaining and unknown life histories of Gunnar Khun and Rees Morgan, who made up the four S.O.H.S. Reach For The Top students.

Some information came to me that Rees Morgan had become a medical doctor and had an active family practice in Plant City Florida. I went online and found an advertisement where Rees advertised that he had 45 years of experience in medicine.

I went to another web site sponsored by the Tampa Bay Times of Saint Petersburg Florida, where I found an obituary for Dr Rees R. Morgan. I quote:

“Dr. Rees R. Morgan age 69, of Tampa, formerly of Plant City, died Thursday, March 14, 2013 after a long illness. He is survived by his three children, Deena Fields (Dan), Jerry Morgan (Amy), Christin Bowden (Michael); and his four grandchildren, Joseph Bowden, Erin and Dan Fields, and Laney Morgan, all of Tampa.

Rees was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and grew up in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. He earned his undergraduate degree in biophysics and a post graduate medical doctor degree from the University Of British Columbia in 1968.

He then interned at Tampa General Hospital in pediatrics followed by three years of family medicine practice in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

Upon his return to Tampa in 1973, he did a pathology residency at the University of South Florida Medical School at Tampa General Hospital. In 1976, he moved to Plant City, and served as a family medicine practitioner until his retirement in 2005.

Rees loved his profession and his family and he will be sorely missed. A memorial service for immediate family will take place at a later date.”

This obituary was published in the Tampa Bay Times on April 7, 2013.

One more story to go folks, surely the Gunnar Khun story hasn’t just vanished, has it?

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