Morrissette, Laura Vaughan Inge, 1933-

Laura Vaughan Inge was born on October 31, 1933, in Mobile, Alabama, and was raised there. She graduated from Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, Virginia, and later served on its board of directors. From 1987 to 1996, she was a trustee of Washington and Lee University, the venerable Lexington, Virginia, institution that, in its original incarnation as Liberty Hall Academy, received crucial financial support from George Washington.

She married Hiram Taylor Morrissette, who became chairman and chief executive officer of Colonial Sugars, Inc., serving from 1980 until the company’s 1986 acquisition by Savannah Foods and Industries. He died in 1990.

Mrs. Morrissette was elected Vice Regent for Alabama in 1983.