MORSE, LOUISA SPRUANCE Louisa Spruance Morse of Wilmington, Delaware, died on October 22, 2009. Born in 1912, Mrs. Morse was a lifetime resident of Wilmington, but starting in the 1920's, while still a child, she came to New Brunswick every summer for more than 80 years. She grew very fond of the province and developed a great interest in its people and history. Her parents, Colonel William and Mrs. Spruance, had built a cottage on Nictau Lake, and in time Louisa came to know many of the legendary guiding figures on the Upper Tobique. She also became very knowledgeable about that period in the region's history and would eventually be sought out by social historians, with whom she was always generous with her time. When the New Brunswick Government took over the area in the 1970's, for Mount Carleton Provincial Park, the Morse family moved to the Nashwaak River, where she resumed her intense interest in the province. After students recorded oral histories with residents of that valley, during New Brunswick's Bicentennial Year, in 1984, she prepared transcripts of the interviews, so that they would be readily accessible to historians and others in the future. A Life Member of the Nashwaak Bicentennial Association, she computerized the accession records of the Association; those of the Central New Brunswick Woodmen's Museum in Boiestown, and also of the Coastal Georgia Historical Society, St. Simon's Island, GA. She was Commander of the Delaware Wing Civil Air Patrol with the rank of Colonel, was the first woman to serve on the Civil Air Patrol National Executive Committee and was elected to the CAP Hall of Honor in 1982. Mrs. Morse's husband, Lt. Col. Albert Whipple Morse, Jr. died in 1979. She is survived by a daughter, Alice Morse of Chester Springs, PA, son William Spruance Morse of Dayton Beach, FL, and two grandchildren Lindsey and Matthew Morse of Washington, DC. A Memorial Service was held on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Wilmington.