HARRIS, ELSIE VENA - Lipscomb County, Texas | ELSIE VENA HARRIS - Texas Gravestone Photos

Elsie Vena HARRIS

Fairmont Cemetery
Lipscomb County,
Texas

Vena S.
May 13, 1913-Dec 06, 2009

Married May 15, 1937

Carl A.
Sept 05, 1911-March 30, 1993

Obituary: Amarillo Daily News, April 1, 1993

Carl A. Harris
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in United Methodist Church with the Rev. Russell Byard, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Fairmont Cemetery by Mason Funeral Home of Shattuck, Oklahoma. Mr. HARRIS was born near Follett and graduated from Follett High School in 1930. He attended West Texas State University at Canyon for a year and later attended business colleges at Hutchinson, Kansas, and Amarillo. He married Vena SHOCK in 1937. They lived in the Wichita, Kansas area, where he was employed by Boeing Aircraft Corp. and Western Auto for several years. He also maintained a small farm near Mulvane, Kansas. He retired in 1974 and returned to Follett, where he worked on the farm east of town. He received the Outstanding New Conservationist Award in 1975. He was an active member of the United Methodist Church and Friends and Neighbors.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Gary HARRIS of Cleveland and Glenard HARRIS of Mulvane; two brothers, Lloyd HARRIS and Riley HARRIS, both of Follett; two sisters, Lois OTEY of Dallas and Melba SCHUG of Denver; 12 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

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Contributed on 5/13/21 by paperdoll1913
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Submitted: 5/13/21 • Approved: 5/13/21 • Last Updated: 5/16/21 • R418433-G418433-S3

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