| It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of Eugene Morton on August 20, 2025. |
| OBITUARY: Eugene Siller Morton, PhD., age 84, of Cambridge Springs, passed away on Wednesday, August 20, 2025. He was born in Rocky River, Ohio on November 25, 1940, the son of the late Eugene Laughlin Morton and Jane Christine Morton. Eugene was a “silverback” in the academic world, a world-renowned researcher in the fields of bird song, tropical birds, and conservation. Eugene received his doctorate in Biology from Yale University. He worked as a biologist at the Smithsonian National Zoo and was an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland where he mentored many graduate students. He had amazing knowledge of nature that he shared enthusiastically, told intriguing stories about his research findings and travels, and he was known by all for his generosity, empathy and humor. Gene loved to share the vegetables from his large garden and give away his prized “zookeenie” relish and other canned goods. He is survived by his wife, Bridget Stutchbury, children Douglas Eugene Morton and Sarah Jane Morton, siblings, Timothy Morton, wife Marian and Robert Morton wife Sandy and a niece Heather Morton, husband Yolando Pereira. Memorials may be made to the French Creek Valley Conservancy (https://www.frenchcreekconservancy.org/donate-2/). Gene’s family collectively owns a 350 acre forest near Cambridge Springs which is now protected forever through a conservation easement with FCVC. |
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