Carl Grant Harris 1903-1984

Carl Grant Harris was born in St. Louis February 6, 1903 to Burns Harris and Nellie Rinehart Harris. Second eldest of eight children. Survived by two brothers, George Harris of Coffeyville, Kansas and Ralph Harris of Florida and was married to Carrie M. Harris of Richland, Missouri, August 4, 1924. To this union two children were born: Marie Harris Hisel, who lives in St. Louis and Leroy Gene Harris of Springfield, Missouri.

He has three granddaughters, Karla, Linda, and Brenda, a dear brother-in-law, great grandfather, uncle, and cousin.

He lived the early part of his married life in St. Louis where he worked for the Union Electric as an electrician. His family moved to Richland, Missouri in 1943 where he farmed and also worked as an electrician at Ft. Leonard Wood. In later years he worked for the Central Electric Company and lived there until his retirement. He and his wife returned to Richland in 1977 and lived there until 1982. The last two and one half years he made his home at his daughter’s residence in St. Louis County.

Funeral services were held, Monday, September 10, 1984 at 1:30 p.m. with burial in the Oaklawn Cemetery under the direction of Colonial Funeral Chapels.

A man is never truly gone from this earth as long as he is remembered, lovingly, by those who have shared his life, known his love, shared his happiness, and felt his sorrows.

Carl Grant Harris will be remembered by his wife Carrie, who shared his life for sixty plus years. He will be remembered by his daughter, Marie, and her husband, Kenneth, by his son gene, and his wife Ella Rae as a loving and caring father. He will be remembered, happily, by his three granddaughters, Carla, Linda, and Brenda as the recall the special times, the special moments, that children share with a grandfather. His brother George will remember him as a father figure who helped him through his adolescent years when he lost his own father. His brother-in-law, Bob Miles, and his sister-in-law, Lee Harris will surely remember him as one who welcomed them gladly into his family. The many friends whose lives he touched his these last eighty one and a half years will certainly remember him as hard-working man of integrity.

Those of us who shared his life and love also shared his sorrows. We knew of his trials, of his moments of despair, and yes, even of his weaknesses. This did not dim our caring for each of us have known these same inadequa

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