Eddy Co. NM - OBIT: DONALD C HARRISON Submitted By: patti pennington ************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************ The following excerpts were taken from Page 6A - The Carlsbad (NM) Current Argus - January 7, 2000 HARRISON Funeral services are scheduled for Donald C. Harrison, 80, on January 8, at Denton-Funchess Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow at Sunset Gardens Memorial Park. He died January 2 at Lakeview Christian Home of the Southwest, Inc., North Canal Unit. Denton-Funchess Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. He was born May 24, 1919, in Lost Creek, W.V., to Anderson Payton and Mary McAvoy Harrison. He was raised and educated in West Virginia. He joined the Navy on March 31, 1942, and served in the SeaBees. He met Zelda Francis Jarrell in Webster Springs, W.V., and they were married March 13, 1945. In 1953, they moved to Carlsbad. He was a retired Baptist minister and was ordained October 18, 1964, in Carlsbad. He ministered in Carlsbad at La Huerta Baptist Church, Happy Valley Baptist Church, Calvary Baptist Church and Standpipe Road Baptist Church. He also ministered in Dell City Baptist Church, Dell City, Texas. He was preceded in death by his wife on October 27, 1999; his parents; two brothers, Eldridge Harrison and Jake Harrison; and a sister, Rebecca Snyder, all of West Virginia. Survivors include a son, Gary Michael "Mike" Harrison and wife, Cathy, of San Antonio, Texas; stepson, Johnathan David "J.D." Hudson of Torrance, Calif.; stepdaughter, Darlene A. Moutray and husband, James A. of Carlsbad; brothers, Patrick Harrison of Carlsbad and Lloyd Harrison of Webster Springs, W.V.; sister, Eleanor Daniels of Ruckersville, Va.; six grandchildren, Terry L. Moutray of The Colony, Texas, Gary Pardue Moutray of Fort Stockton, Texas, Heather P. Harrison and Gregory M. Harrison of San Antonio, Texas, Sean Hudson and Jon Hudson of Torrance, Calif.; and six great-grandchildren.