Obituary

HALE CENTER - Funeral services for Ruth Harrison, 99, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Hale Center Church of Christ with Silas Short of Post, Church of Christ minister, officiating. LaDell Harrison, a grandson, will assist. Burial will be in the Hale Center Cemetery by Freeman-Abell Funeral Home of Hale Center. Mrs. Harrison died Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2002, in Lubbock. She was born Oct. 25,1902, in Texola and married C. M. Harrison on Nov. 26, 1921, in Idalou. He died Jan. 5, 1971. She moved to Hale Center in 1944 and was an avid quilter and raised chickens and loved to can foods. She was a member of the Hale Center Church of Christ. Survivors include two sons, Rex Harrison of Hale Center and Curtis Eldon Harrison of Lubbock; a daughter, Frances Louise Stephenson of Odessa; 13 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great grandchildren. A son, E.T. Harrison, died Jan. 12, 1999, and a grandson, Ronald Bart Stephenson, died June 30, 1997. The family suggests memorials to the Sunset International Bible Institute, 3723 34th St., Lubbock, TX, 79410.
Plainview Daily Herald - Aug. 30, 2002