George Morley | Obituary | Record Eagle

My beloved husband, father and grandfather, Dr. George Malcolm Morley of FACOG passed away peacefully on October 13, 2022 at the age of 89. January 2022.
He is survived by four children: Kirsten Ryan (Michael) of Avon, Connecticut, Dr. Robert Morley of Marquette, Alison Young (Todd) of Northport, and Gretchen Morley-Ross of Lake Fife. His three grandchildren, James Ryan, Jack Ryan and Evie Ross. He is also survived by his brothers Dr. John Wilson Morley, 94, of Richmond, Virginia, and Dr. Thomas Selwyn Morley, 85, of the Isle of Man, UK. cousin, Anita Dunn of Ortonville;
Malcolm was born in County Durham, England in 1933 to John Joseph Morley and Minnie (Hodgson) Morley. He spent an adventurous childhood in the North of England during the war, beginning his lifelong hobby of beekeeping. Attending medical school at the University of Edinburgh, Malcolm graduated at the top of his class in 1952. His classmate Jerry Slavin said, “Malcolm was the man any of us tried to beat, but we could never match his heart.” He was asked to join Her Majesty’s Royal Medical Team, but decided to come to America because a colleague from college offered him a job at Oakwood Hospital in Dearborn and Malcolm applied. .
Malcolm held a residency at Oakwood and later joined the practice of Dr. Thomas Carbonell. After Tom retired in his mid-1970s, Malcolm joined forces with Dr. Jure Grahovac and the two built him one of the largest OBGYN clinics in Wayne County. He was Oakwood’s chief of staff for years, and in the late ’80s, the AMA mandated immediate clamping of the fetal umbilical cord after delivery. This was a directive that changed Malcolm’s life forever. He vehemently opposed this practice, arguing that immediate clamping of the umbilical cord (ICC) was harmful to newborns. Over the next two decades, his research, findings, and arguments against the ICC have been published in numerous articles, medical journals, and journals, making him an authority on the subject worldwide. In 2008, Malcolm was honored by the Michigan Medical Society for his 50 years of service to the medical community.
Malcolm had many interests and talents outside of medicine. A lover of literature, he wrote and published The Giants of the Red Mill Run (a fictional story about the life of Henry Ford) and was the leader of his program Great Books, which teaches children how to think critically. . An avid beekeeper since childhood, Malcolm remained passionate about beekeeping until the very end and often spoke of his friend Julius Coralic. Malcolm also loves dancing, and this prompted an introduction to the love of his life, Ronnie.
A year after their first meeting at Sock Hop, Malcolm and Ronnie were married at Martha Mary Chapel in Greenfield Village (1963). They bought their first home in his late 1960s for the Ford Foundation. When his fourth child was born, he decided to move the family to Birmingham, where he lived for 23 years. In 1997, Malcolm and Ronnie moved to a farm in Northport and remembered their home in England. He and Ronnie embrace the community, Northport Supporter He joins the club, Northport He attends the Covenant Church, Pancakes at Northport Airport of Music” production. Malcolm was also known to bring his favorite dog, Jesse, to the coffee shop every morning to join him in conversations with men about “what’s going on” in town.
In 2014, Malcolm had a cardiac arrest event. Northport EMS responded and gave him five electric shocks to restart his heart. He was taken to Manson Hospital, where Ronnie pleaded with the doctors, “I begged them to do all they could. I was supposed to go first!” Manson’s team worked on a new procedure that kept Malcolm in a coma for a week to save him from brain damage. The procedure went well, and with intense physical therapy and a firm determination to go home and take care of Ronnie, Malcolm made a full recovery. She told her friends that he was feeling better than before. He and Ronnie were so grateful to have been given an invaluable gift by these men and women – saving Malcolm’s life.
In the end, Malcolm let Ronnie “go ahead” and spent the past few months patiently waiting for Ronnie to dance with him again in heaven.
Gathering time begins at 2:00 PM on October 29, 2022 at Reynolds Johnkoff Funeral Home. Malcolm is escorted in procession leaving the funeral home at 3:00 p.m. to his final resting place, Leelanau, his township cemetery.