CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Sam M. Harrison, 18 Feb 2005
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Sam M. Harrison, 71, East Cottage Avenue, Elizabethton, died Friday, February
18, 2005, at the James H. Quillen V.A. Medical Center Hospital, Mountain Home,
following an extended illness.

Mr. Harrison was a native of Watauga County, N.C., having lived in
Elizabethton for the last six years. He was the son of the late Council
Garfield and Margie Ward Harrison. In addition to his parents, he was preceded
in death by his first wife, Nancy Davis Harrison, in 1997, a son, Michael G.
Harrison, in 1979, and a grandson, Patrick Morgan.

Mr. Harrison was a member of Valley Forge Christian Church. He retired in
laundry service management and was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, having served
in the Korean conflict.

Survivors include his wife, Kathleen Church Morris Harrison, of the home; two
daughters and sons-in-law, Teresa and Phillip Morgan, Indianapolis, Ind., and
Rose and Rev. Rick Penny, Croydon, N.H.; a son, Robert S. Harrison, Lafayette,
Ind.; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; two sisters, Novella
Davis, Rescue, Va., and Mary Davis, Battery Park, Va.; two brothers, Raymond
Harrison, Newport News, Va., and Burnett Harrison, Fountain Inn, S.C. Several
nieces and nephews also survive. 

Funeral services will be conducted at 7 p.m. Monday, February 21, in the
Chapel of Peace of Tetrick Funeral Home, Elizabethton, with Mr. Jason
Birchfield, minister, and Rev. Rick Penny officiating. Music will be under the
direction of Rev. Rick Penny. The family will receive friends at the funeral
home from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday, prior to the service. Friends may also call
at the residence, 314 East Cottage Avenue, Elizabethton, at anytime. Graveside
service and interment will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, February 24, at Greenlawn
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ind., with military honors by the V.F.W. Honor Guard,
Frankfort, Ind. Active pallbearers will be selected from family and friends.
Honorary pallbearers will be David Hampton, Glen Ray Simerly, Ray Arrwood,
Bill Trivette and Ralph Hyder. Everyone planning to attend the graveside
service are asked to meet at the cemetery at 10:55 a.m. Thursday. Those who
prefer memorials in lieu of flowers may make donations to the Volunteer
Services at the James H. Quillen V.A. Medical Center Hospital, P.O. Box 4000,
Mountain Home, TN 37684. Words of condolence may be shared with the Harrison
family on our Web site at www.tetrickfuneralhome.com. Tetrick Funeral Home,
Elizabethton, (423) 542-2232, is in charge of arrangements. 


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