Patricia Kennealy-Morrison

Jim Morrison's will stated that "I declare that I am a resident of Los Angeles County, California; that I am unmarried and have no children." There are no known witnesses to the hand-fasting ceremony. In the photo section of her book, Kenneally-Morrison includes a picture of a document in her own hand-writing, with her own signature and the signature "J Morrison" at the bottom of the document. The picture's caption states: "Signatures of the witnesses have been obscured to protect their privacy."

Although handfasting, like other religious ceremonies, is not legal unless the appropriate State paperwork is filed, she later changed her legal name to include Morrison's name, and Morrison allegedly addressed letters and poems to her as "Patricia Morrison" and "my wife, Patricia". Jim Morrison's will, however, left everything to his long-time companion Pamela Courson.

Keneally-Morrison served as an advisor on Oliver Stone's movie The Doors, and played a small role in the film as the High Priestess who marries the Jim and Patricia characters (portrayed by Val Kilmer and Kathleen Quinlan). However, in subsequent interviews and writings she was scathingly critical of Stone's portrayal of Morrison, herself, and other people who were the basis for the film's fictional characters, saying Stone's fiction bore little to no resemblance to the people she had known or the events they lived through; Stone admitted that the character named after her was a composite of several of Morrison's girlfriends and regretted not giving her a fictional name. Read Less