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Published May 31, 2008 06:24 pm - Robert Morrison has lived a charmed life. “If I had my life to live over, I don’t see anything at all I’d want to change,” Robert, now 84, said. Born the unlucky 13th child in a Michigan family of 16 children, Morrison says he has been anything but unlucky. “Really,” Robert said. “I’ve been so very lucky. I’m probably the luckiest one in the family.”
Dentist to the Stars
By JENNIFER MOONSONG
For the Daily Times
Robert Morrison has lived a charmed life.
“If I had my life to live over, I don’t see anything at all I’d want to change,” Robert, now 84, said.
Born the unlucky 13th child in a Michigan family of 16 children, Morrison says he has been anything but unlucky.
“Really,” Robert said. “I’ve been so very lucky. I’m probably the luckiest one in the family.”
Robert attributes much of his luck and happiness in life to his father. “He was a character,” Robert said. “Both a politician and a woodsman.”
Raised a farm boy, Robert joined the military at 19 and flew a B-25 bomber during World War II.
“It was my dream to fly the P-61 but the war ended ... and I didn’t get the chance. Looking back that was a real streak of luck too because the casualty rate for flying those was 82 percent.”
It was during his brief but turbulent military stint that he met his wife, Pat, in California. The two had a whirlwind romance that led to a marriage that lasted many, many years until Pat’s death.
“I went back to Michigan and got my bachelor’s degree in dentistry,” Robert said. “It was a four-letter word that took me to Las Vegas – WIFE. She was California born and raised and she wanted the warmth. She told me we could go anywhere that she could plant a palm tree.” They went to Las Vegas and planted the palm tree he promised her.
The move turned out to be the move of a lifetime for Robert’s career as a dentist.
“It was in the early 1950s when we moved there and it was wonderful,” Robert said. “It was when you could still walk down the street and everyone knew your name.”
Morrison developed a great dental practice there because he was performing procedures that his competition didn’t know how to perform.
“I was offering root canals,” Robert said. “People just couldn’t believe that you could actually save a tooth.” He developed more with his patients than good bedside manner. Robert developed lifelong friendships.
Most of Dr. Morrison’s patients were not your run-of-the-mill customers either. At a time when Vegas was truly booming, many of his patients were celebrities and Las Vegas stars and starlets.
Among Morrison’s big name patients were Jimmy Durante, Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, Jack Benny and many more.
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