Idaho County ID Archives Obituaries.....Harris, William Ray July 2, 1947
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Idaho County Free Press, Grangeville, ID; July 3, 1947
Hold Military Rites For William Harris

  Funeral services for William (Bill) Harris, who lost his life in an airplane 
crash at Kooskia the evening of July 2nd, was held at the Robertson Funeral 
Chapel Friday morning July 4th at 10 o'clock.
  William Ray Harris was born August 26, 1923 in Grangeville, the son of Mr. 
and Mrs. Oscar Harris.  He attended the local schools, graduating from 
Grangeville High School with the class of 1941, then taking employment in the 
City Bakery, where he worked until August 1944 when he enlisted in the U.S. 
Navy, taking his boot training at Farragut, and service on the sea.  He was 
discharged in April 1946 and returned to his position in the City Bakery.
  On August 3, 1946, he married Emma Jean Wilkins of Grangeville by Rev. 
William E. Harris.  Others surviving besides his wife are his mother, Mrs. 
Emily Harris in General Hospital; daughter, Kathleen Rae; one sister, Mrs. 
Edgar Klaus of Spokane; three brothers, Captain Kenneth Harris, U.S. Marines 
in China; Rex of Boles, and Wesley of Grangeville.
  Rev. William E. Harris officiated at the funeral services and military 
burial was in Prairie View Cemetery with the local Veterans of Foreign Wars 
firing squad firing the salute and Grover Pollan playing taps.  Mrs. Pearl 
Campbell sang hymns accompanied by Mrs. Marie Green at the organ.  Pallbearers 
were Sam Layne, Kenneth Earp, Ranford Russell, Richard Warden, George Wikoff 
and Harold Davis, all of whom were fellow workmen in the bakery with Bill 
except Mr. Earp.  


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