While attending
South Laurel High School in London, Kentucky, Morris was diagnosed with
restrictive cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle; After finishing at South Laurel High School, she attended the
University of the Cumberlands in
Williamsburg, Kentucky, where she studied English and earned her teaching credentials. On July 8, 2006, she married Brent Joseph Morris, a
University of Kentucky medical student. A day after they returned from their honeymoon in Hawaii, she suffered a
heart attack and was admitted to the
University of Kentucky Medical Center where she died on July 21, 2006, two weeks after her wedding and eight days shy of her 22nd birthday. She had been hired to start teaching English, that September, at
George Rogers Clark High School in
Winchester, Kentucky. ==Filmography==