Harmon Co. OK Obit for Frankie Mae (Drain) Harris
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Transcribed from the Altus Times http://www.altustimes.com/
For the Harmon County, OK. archives project:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/harmon/harmonobits.html 
6/30/2002 by Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com
for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives.
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June 13, 2002: 

Frankie Mae Harris, 81, died Wednesday at her home in Hollis. Services will be 
at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Calvary Community Church in Hollis. The Rev. Wilmer 
Cooper, the Rev. Robbie, the Rev. Odis Babers and the Rev. Davis will officiate. 

Burial will follow at Fairmount Cemetery. Services are under the direction of 
Stewart Funeral Service. 

She was born June 12, 1921 in Tatums to Ellis Drain and Gracie Drain. 

She attended school in Tatums. 

She served in the community of Hollis from 1946 until her death. 

She attended Pilgrim Baptist Church in Tatums, Zion Hill Baptist Church in 
Hollis and the Sunset Baptist Church in Altus. 

She enjoyed gardening and sewing quilts for her children and grandchildren. 

She was known as "Big Mama" to all her family and friends. 

She is survived by her husband, the Rev. Jack Harris of Hollis; three sons, 
Samuel Harris and wife, Thelma of Fort Worth, Texas, O.B. Harris and wife, 
Earline of Fort Worth, Texas and Herbert Harris of Hollis; two daughters, Ethel 
Harris of Hollis and Savannah Harris of Fort Worth, Texas; three sisters, Lillie 
Young, of Tatums, Vestella Williams of Wichita, Kan. and Naomi Colbert of 
Oklahoma City; two brothers, Lou Carl Young of Tatums, Ellis Drain of Duncan; 18 
grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchildren and many 
nieces and nephews. 

She was preceded in death by two brothers, two sisters, one daughter, and one 
son.