Obituary of Floyd Harris, Saline Co, AR

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        Date: September 2006
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Lonoke Democrat    September 2006

Floyd M. Harris

Floyd Murphey Harris of Ward, Ark., was born Jan. 31, 1917, at Ward and died
peacefully at home Sept. 14, 2006, after a long battle with cancer. He served in
the Army Intelligence in the 115th Signal Corp. during World War II. He was a
member of the Joliet First Church of the Nazarene until 1987. After retirement,
he moved back to Arkansas in 1987 and was a member of the Beebe Church of the
Nazarene. He served on the church board and taught Sunday school and helped
build these three churches, including the Joliet Crystal Lawns Church of the
Nazarene. He worked on the Elgin, Joliet, and Eastern Railway for 31 years in
Joliet, Ill., and was an active member of the Woodlawn Senior Citizens. All who
knew him said he was a wonderful man of God and made an impact on many who met
him.

Floyd is preceded in death by his wife, Carmelita Harris, who died April 11,
1992; his parents Joe and Alma Harris; two brothers, Clem A. Harris and Darrel
Harris; two sisters, Odell Young and Mattie Lene Baldwin Knox; two daughters,
Patricia Forillo and Alma Jo Fields of Joliet, Ill.

He is survived by one daughter, Barbara Burk of Joliet, Ill.; three sons, Ronald
(Connie) Harris and Glenn Harris of Joliet, Ill.; Donald (Rose) Harris of Ward;
16 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren; sisters Geraldine Harris, Oza Mae
Trickey, and Ruth Hudson, all of Little Rock, and Elizabeth (Paul) Norman of
Ward, and brother Charles (Jane) Harris of Coal City, Ill.

Family received friends from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18, at
Westbrook Funeral Home, Beebe. Funeral services were held 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept.
19, at Beebe First Church of the Nazarene, with burial in Woodlawn Memorial Park
in Joliet, Ill. 

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