Wilhelmina Morrison will be this year’s Worm Gruntin’ Queen
Special to The Sun
The 2024 Worm Gruntin’ Queen is Wilhelmina White Morrison, affectionately known as “Willie,” of Lake Ellen in Medart.
She was born in 1927 in Fort Myers to Willie Atlas White (“Will)) of Medart and Sarah Emily Johnson (“Sally”) of DeFuniak Springs.
She grew up on Lawhon Mill Road and graduated from Sopchoppy High School in 1945, where she was voted class prom queen her senior year. She had five sisters and four brothers.
She moved to Tallahassee after high school and went to work for Lewis State Bank, where she retired as an Assistant Vice President in 1977.
She married the late Clarence Love Morrison in 1950 at Lake Ellen Church in Medart. She has three children, Sarabeth Jones, Mina Sutton, and Trey Morrison, 10 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.
She remembers grunting for worms as a child with her father at the ponds near her home on Lawhon Mill Road.
“We would grunt the worms, then go fishing for bream with poles made from the limbs of a gallberry bush.”
Her favorite pastimes are quilting, watching television, and going, going, going!
Says Morrison, “Don’t ask me if you don’t want me.” She thanks the good Lord for her longevity in life, and praises Him every day.
