RAPID CITY | John Edgar Morrisson died Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at Fort Meade Medical Center. John was born August 28, 1926, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Deadwood to Edgar and Helen Morrisson. He graduated from Rapid City High School in 1944. John joined the U.S. Navy on Oct. 5, 1944. He received his training at the Great Lakes Naval Base and was assigned to the Destroyer McDermott in the South Pacific where they were involved in combat and were in the fleet that shelled Japan. He was discharged on June 19, 1946. After John was discharged, he returned to Rapid City and enrolled at Black Hills College in Spearfish. After a year or more at BHC, he joined his father at the Motor Service Company on 4th and St. Joe, opened in 1929, where he remained until it was closed and sold in October 2008. Over the years, John's main interests were cars, Dixieland Jazz, speed which included motorcycles, hot rods, go carts, snowmobiles, and sports cars. John played the trumpet in a Dixieland Group when he was in college and continued his playing, only in private. If someone walked past the garage from approximately 10:00-12:30 p.m. plus, you might have heard sounds of a lone trumpet, or backed up with a recorded band. The business and John's health seemed to fail simultaneously. Someone driving past the garage might have noticed an older person dozing on a sofa in the corner window. John fell coming into the building, and after several months of rehab at Fort Meade, John moved to the Fairmont Grand Regional Senior Care Facility in October 2008, where he remained until another fall sent him to the Hospice Unit at Fort Meade. Sincere thanks and appreciation to the staff at Fairmont Grand and all at Fort Meade who took such great and loving care of John. He was preceded in death by his parents, and nephew, James Anthony Knecht. John is survived by his sister, Rosemary "Ting" and Richard Knecht. Mass of Christian Burial was Monday, April 29, at 10:00 am at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Inurnment was at Mt. Calvary Cemetery. The family requests no flowers.