Harris L. Simpson
Dies At Hospital
Funeral And Burial
Monday Morning
Harris L. Simpson,
65, a well known farmer of Mt. Eden community, died at 11:45 a.m.
last Friday at the King’s Daughters Hospital where he had only
been for one day. He had been in ill health for some time.
Mr. Simpson was a
native of Anderson County and a son of the late Jess and Mary
Elizabeth Morton Simpson. He was a member of Mt. Moriah Baptist
Church and a member of Mt. Eden Masonic Lodge No. 263.
Mr. Simpson was a
gentleman possessed with many fine traits of character, chief among
them being loyalty to his family and friends.
Surviving are his
wife, Mrs. Corrine Puckett Simpson; a daughter, Mrs. LeRoy Smitha,
Mt. Eden; two sons, Leland Simpson, Mt. Eden; Leroy Simpson, Long
Beach, Calif.; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were
conducted at 10:30 a.m. Monday from Mt. Moriah Baptist Church by the
Rev. F. E. Milby, the Rev. L. C. Stratton and the Rev. Robert
Johnson. Burial followed in Grove Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers were
Harold Hardesty, Ollie Huffman, Gilbert Harrison, Albert Holmes,
Carl Palmer and Harry Cook.
SOURCE: Submitted by
Tamryn Glaser.
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