Obit of Harris, Lloyd Everett - Woodward County OK

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::Fairmont Cemetery--Follett TX

Lloyd Everett Harris

FOLLETT - Lloyd Everett Harris, 88, died Friday, June 5, 1998.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in United Methodist Church with the 
Rev. Scott Richards and the Rev. Clay Wells officiating. Burial will 
be in the Fairmont Cemetery by Mason Funeral Home of Shattuck, Okla.

Mr. Harris was born in Woodward County, Okla. He was raised in the 
Follett area and graduated from Follett High School. He attended West 
Texas State University for two years before beginning his teaching 
career in Cope School, a rural Lipscomb County School. He taught 
there for three years and one year at Follett schools before 
returning to WT to finish his degree. The following year, he taught 
in Higgins for one year.

In 1938 he moved to Tahoka to teach for a year and then to Lamesa for 
three years. During the summer months, he farmed on the rented G.S. 
Lively land at Follett, which he had farmed since 1937.

He was called to active duty in 1942 and served in the 18th Seabee 
Construction Battalion attached to the Second Marine Division, 
serving in the Southwest Pacific. He returned to the United States 
after serving 39 months. He returned to Follett where he continued to 
farm and ranch.

For many years, he served on the Follett School Board, the Farmers' 
Grain Board and the Cemetery Association.

He married Irene Higgins in 1942.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Dennis Harris of Spearman; a 
daughter, Patricia Brown of Stratford; a brother, Riley Harris of 
Follett; two sisters, Lois Otey of Dallas and Melba Schug of Denver; 
and two grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to the American Cancer Society, the 
Follett Methodist Church or the Follett Baptist Church.

Amarillo Globe News 7 Jun 1998
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