Richard Lewis Morris was born July 30,1960 to the late Archie William Lewis and Mae Liza Morris in Pope, MS. Richard graduated Westwood High School in 1979 in Memphis, TN and enlisted in the army shortly afterwards where he served 13 years. During his time stationed in Germany, he met and married the love of his life, Jutta Maria Deutsch in 1991. With his wife Jutta, Richard had a son (Benjamin) in Germany and moved his new family to Memphis, TN where he sought to make a new life for his family and later had a daughter (Rebecca) after settling back in the U.S. Richard pursued a career in the trucking industry and eventually landed a job that he loved at Power Transportation as a transportation specialist.