Obit of Harris, Frances - Bryan County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ 3 Apr 2005 Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Harris, Frances Frances Harris, 85, of Amarillo died Thursday, Aug. 5, 2004. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors Memorial Chapel, Fifth Avenue and Pierce Street, with the Rev. Alan Williamson, chaplain at Ware Memorial Care Center, officiating. Entombment will be in Llano Cemetery Mausoleum. Mrs. Harris was born in Platter, Okla. Her family moved to Amarillo in the late 1920s. She graduated from Amarillo High School in 1937. Mrs. Harris graduated from San Jacinto Beauty College and worked several years as a hairdresser. Later she became a dental assistant for Dr. R.P. Parcell. She married David Harris on Oct. 23, 1938. Throughout their married life they lived in many interesting places such as Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, Long Island and Buffalo, N.Y. They also lived in Boston and Brookline, Mass. During World War II, she worked at Raytheon in Newton, Mass. Eventually they moved back to Texas and worked for 23 years repairing clocks in their own shop. Mrs. Harris enjoyed ceramics, porcelain, needlepoint, oil, tole and china painting, as well as traveling and reading. She was very proud of her family and proud that she was able to give to others. She was preceded in death by her husband on Jan. 17, 2003. Survivors include a son, Don Harris and wife, Kay, of Amarillo; two grandchildren, Darcy Harris and Don Harris II, both of Amarillo; and a brother, Alva "Ace" Conover of Rockwell. Friends may sign the online register book at www.blackburnshaw.com. Amarillo Globe-News, Aug. 8, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan