Martin Harry Morse

Martin H. Morse

Newark – Martin Harry Morse, 82, died unexpectedly on Monday, January 20, 2025 at F.F. Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua.

Friends are invited to attend funeral services which will be held on Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 11 A.M. at the First United Methodist Church, 301 South Main St., Newark. Private burial services will take place separately at the East Bloomfield Cemetery.

Mr. Morse was born on June 25, 1942 in Elmira, NY and was raised by his maternal grandparents, Harry & Maud Morse, whom he always called Mom and Dad. He was a graduate of Bloomfield High School, class of 1960, and received his Associates degree in Forestry from Paul Smith’s College and his Bachelor’s in Business from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

After enlisting in the U.S. Army, “Marty” began an ongoing correspondence with fellow Bloomfield graduate Kathleen Francis while serving in Vietnam with the Army Corp of Engineers. This would lead to their eventual marriage on August 26, 1967, yielding 52 years of (mostly) happiness and a son, Mark.

Upon his honorable discharge from the military, he relocated to Newark and began a professional career at Rochester Gas & Electric as an energy efficiency analyst, a role he would keep for nearly 30 years before taking an early retirement and forming his own company, Towpath Energy Consulting. Southern California Edison would become one of his first clients and resulted in a temporary relocation to Los Angeles for 5 years in the late 1990s.

He was extremely active in the community, serving on the Newark School Board and assuming roles on various boards and committees at the First United Methodist Church, where his deep, booming voice could be heard emanating from the choir on Sunday mornings for a number of decades.

An avid collector of antique tools, duck decoys and Aladdin oil lamps, he loved to work with his hands and would fill his time with gardening, woodworking, and a wide assortment of started (but rarely completed) home improvement projects that would provide surprise and delight to his wife.

He was a master at crafting a perfect Dad joke, often proclaiming that while those may be your chips, it was nacho cheese.

His favorite movie was “Shane,” starring Alan Ladd & Jack Palance.

He is survived by his son Mark (Tiffany) and granddaughter Kendall of Los Angeles, California; two brothers, Bill (Judy) Outlaw and Harry (Mary) Outlaw; and two sisters, Pauli Wesen & Tina (Vern) Piatt. He is predeceased by his wife and grandparents, and two uncles, R. Stewart (Veronica) Morse & Robert (Mary) Morse whom he considered to be brothers.

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