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Submitted: 10/17/21 • Approved: 10/17/21 • Last Updated: 10/20/21 • R463756-G463756-S3
1874-1952
Wife
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Services for Mrs. Margaret Addeline Harris, who passed away in a Pampa hospital, Saturday, January 19, were held at 3 p.m. Sunday in the First Baptist Church, Wheeler with the pastor, Rev. M.B. Smith, officiating.
Margaret Addeline Wilson was born January 14, 1874 near Milburn in McCullock County where she spent her childhood and girlhood. She was converted and joined the Baptist faith at about the age of 11 years. As a young woman she went to New Mexico with her brothers pioneering and cattle ranching. There on April 10, 1895, she married Acel Newman Harris near the town of Datil. They spent the rest of their lives in the three states of New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. About 12 years they lived in the vicinity of Wheeler.
To this union was born 8 children, of whom six are still living, Joseph Wayne Harris now of Tempe, Ariz.; Ernest Lee Harris of Lawndale, Calif.; Lillie May Clemons of Pampa; Lillian Beatrice Brown of Espanola, New Mexico; Coney Clifford Harris of Fort Worth; Ollie Opal Denham of Wheeler. Also surviving her are two sisters, Mrs. W.J. Shanks of Big Springs and Mrs. Betty Turner of Prescott, Ariz. She leaves 21 grand children and 27 great grandchildren.
At her death she was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church of Pampa.
She had been in bad health for several years and seriously ill several months, staying alternately with two daughters at their homes at Pampa and Wheeler respectively.
Last Wednesday she was taken to the Highland General hospital at Pampa where she passed away at 12:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon, two days after undergoing an operation. She had lived to the age of 78 years.
Mrs. Harris was laid to rest beside her husband who preceded her in 1946 and two sons in the Wheeler Cemetery.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, January 24, 1952)
Contributed on 10/17/21
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