Michael Jay Morse

Michael Jay Morse, 65, died on Monday, October 7 in San Antonio. He was born November 20, 1958 to Charles Morse Sr. and Beatrice (Bea) Galindo.
He is preceded in death by his father, grandparents Cresencio and Lilly Ortiz and Marie Mae and Vernon Edwin Morse.
Mike is survived by his wife Cayce Morse, daughter Holli Williams (Andrew), son Cole Morse, mother Bea Morse, brother Charles Morse Jr., sister Maureen Ekrut (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 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 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.
Memorial donations, in lieu of flowers, may be made to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation at tpwf.org in Mike’s memory.
Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Primrose Funeral Services, Pearsall.