Obituary of Thomas Owen Harris, Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas

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        Date: 19 Aug 2001
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Texarkana Daily News, 3/11/1955, page 3 col. 5

Thomas Owen "Major" Harris, 69, of Mandeville, Ark., died at 5:35 p.m.
Thursday at his home.

Mr. Harris was a life-long resident of Miller County and a retired farmer.

Survivors are his wife: four daughters, Mrs. Earl Higginbotham, Mrs. Loyd
Chapman, Mrs. Audie Brock, all of Texarkana and Mrs. Robert Cowan of Ft.
Worth: three sons, J. D. Harris , Oscar Harris, and James Harris, all of
Texarkana: twelve grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a number of
nieces and nephews: one brother, Joe Harris: and one sister, Mrs. Bertie
Williams.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the East Funeral Home
chapel with the Rev. H. G. Grigson, Jr. officiating and the Rev. Mr. Lemond
assisting. Burial will be in the Harmony Grove Cemetery.

Active pallbearers will be his nephews, J. W. Williams, Edward Williams,
Walter Harris, Tilman Davis, Clarence Davis, T.L. Grigson, Arlie Aaron, and
Ellis Bull.

Honorary pallbearers are Joe Willie McJunkins, Bernace McJunkins, L. G.
Clemmons, Don Lambert, Joe Dove, Harry Buford, Gilson Cox, William Varner,
Andrew Reed, J. C. Miller, Jack Hickerson, C.H. Ross, Garland McJunkins,
Aaron Hall, A. D. Corder, Chester Hickman, Marshall Rivers, C.M. Barrow,
M.T. Jones, Joe Watts, Roy Rumsey, Lynn Farr, J. L. Pitman, Carroll Reid,
James Reed, F. A. Reed, Allan Grant, Fay Pitman,, H. W. Hall, F. W.
Wardlaw, A. D. Goss, L. S. Long, J. A. Bullington, Weldon Ames, W. R.
Chalker, Henry Mathis, J.T. Jones, Tom Wright, J. C. Chapman, L. F. McAfee,
Harver Nelson, and F.W. Fincher.


RESEARCHER NOTE: Thomas Owen "Major" Harris Husband of Mollie Agnes Davis,
dau of William L. Davis