DR. LARRY WAYNE MORRIS, age 71, Middle Tennessee State University psychology professor emeritus, died September 10, 2010 at his home. Born in 1939 in Amarillo, Texas, and raised in Guymon, Oklahoma, he graduated from the University of Texas in Arlington in 1966 and earned a PhD in psychology from Vanderbilt University in 1970. He joined the MTSU Psychology Department faculty in 1969 and served as the department chairman from 1983 until his retirement in 2003. He researched, published, and made significant contributions in the fields of anxiety, its components, and its effects on performance and the personality theories of extraversion and introversion. He was preceded in death by his parents, Larry and Alice Morris and his sister Barbara Ernest of Denver, Colorado. He is survived by his wife, Nancy Cooper Morris; a sister, Patricia (Richard) Shelby, of Little Rock Arkansas; an aunt, Virginia Whitfield of Murfreesboro; and children: Wayne (Rhonda) Raney of Murfreesboro, Kae (David) Allen of Murfreesboro, Jennifer (Jeff) Roberts of Marietta, Georgia, and Scott (Sandra) Morris of Smyrna, Georgia; and eight grandchildren. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to The Alzheimers Association, 4205 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville, TN, 37215, or the charity of your choice. A memorial service will be held at 6:00 PM Sunday at Central Christian Church with Steven M. Odom and Jeannie Hoechst-Jackson officiating. Visitation will be from 5:00 until 6:00 PM Sunday at the church. Burial will be Saturday at 4:00 PM at Ivy Bluff United Methodist Church Cemetery in Cannon County with a procession leaving at 3:30 PM from Woodfin Memorial Chapel, 615-893-5151. www.woodfinchapel.com.