OBIT: James F. HARRIS Sr., 2004, Jenner Crossroads, Somerset County, PA
  
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  Ensign James F. Harris Sr., U.S. Navy retired
  
  Ensign James F. Harris Sr., U.S. Navy retired, 84, Jenner Crossroads, died
  Aug. 2, 2004, at UPMC Lee Regional.  Born Oct. 14, 1919, in West Salisbury,
  son of Dewey and Agnes (Murray) Harris.  Preceded in death by parents;
  infant daughter and grandson, James F. Harris III.  Survived by wife of 56
  years, the former Freda B. Pound; daughter, Barbara, married to Donald
  McIntosh, Boswell; son, James F. Jr., married to Margaret Murphy, Buxton,
  Maine; four grandchildren, Robert J. and Linda Jean Taylor, James F. Harris
  IV and Katrina Charlene Harris; four great-grandchildren, Sheldon R. and
  Shawn Taylor, Alexander Soik and MacKenzie Singleton; sister, Myrtle Jean,
  widow of Roy Fulton, Jerome; and brothers, Dale E. married to Frances
  Elliot, Concord, N.C.; and Donald W., married to Arlene Kopar, Harrisburg,
  N.C.  Attended the former Boswell High School. Past member of the former
  Jerome Lutheran Church.  Member of the Ali Ghan Shriners, AAONMS,
  Cumberland, Md.; the Valley of Portland Consistory, Portland, Maine and the
  Meyersdale Lodge 554 F&AM.  A U.S. Navy veteran of World War II and the
  Korean War with over 20 years service, having retired in 1959 with the rank
  of Ensign.  Served aboard the following U.S.S. vessels: Franklin D.
  Roosevelt, Compton, Kearsarge, Yorktown and Ticonderoga.  Recipient of
  numerous service medals including Asiatic Pacific, China and Korean
  Service, European-African-Middle Eastern and the World War II Victory.
  Friends received from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Hoffman Funeral Home,
  Allegheny Street, Boswell, where service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday.
  Pastoral leader Larry C. Hoover officiating.  Interment, Maple Spring
  Cemetery, near Jerome, with full graveside military rite in charge of the
  Somerset County Honor Guard.
  
  08/04/2004Ê Daily American