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Joseph Hugh Harris Jr.

Birth
Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia, USA
Death
10 Jun 2005 (aged 95)
Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Burial
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Funeral services for Joseph Hugh Harris Jr., 95, of Evanston, Illinois, were held Saturday, June 18, 2005, at Jackson Chapel AME Church, Washington, with Rev. J.L. Lawson and Rev. G.L. Avery officiating. Burial was in Resthaven Cemetery, Washington. He died June 10.

Mr. Harris was the son of Joseph Hugh Harris and Lucy Butler Harris. He attended the Wilkes County public schools and furthered his education at Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Ala. He was a veteran of World War II and was a licensed mortician in Evanston, Illinois, for more than 50 years. His wife was the late Elizabeth Parker Harris.

Survivors include daughters, Dorothy Harris of Detroit and Sandra D. (Vernard) Dicker of Clarksville, Tenn.; stepson Albert (Patricia) Brown of Atlanta; sister Eleanor H. Brown of Shaker Heights, Ohio; brother Charles N. (Ann) Harris of Atlanta; and many grandchildren, nieces, nephews and other relatives.

Funeral services were held June 18 in Jackson Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, Ga., with interment in Rest Haven West Cemetery, also in Washington. Arrangements were handled by House of Thompson Mortuary in Evanston.
Funeral services for Joseph Hugh Harris Jr., 95, of Evanston, Illinois, were held Saturday, June 18, 2005, at Jackson Chapel AME Church, Washington, with Rev. J.L. Lawson and Rev. G.L. Avery officiating. Burial was in Resthaven Cemetery, Washington. He died June 10.

Mr. Harris was the son of Joseph Hugh Harris and Lucy Butler Harris. He attended the Wilkes County public schools and furthered his education at Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Ala. He was a veteran of World War II and was a licensed mortician in Evanston, Illinois, for more than 50 years. His wife was the late Elizabeth Parker Harris.

Survivors include daughters, Dorothy Harris of Detroit and Sandra D. (Vernard) Dicker of Clarksville, Tenn.; stepson Albert (Patricia) Brown of Atlanta; sister Eleanor H. Brown of Shaker Heights, Ohio; brother Charles N. (Ann) Harris of Atlanta; and many grandchildren, nieces, nephews and other relatives.

Funeral services were held June 18 in Jackson Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, Ga., with interment in Rest Haven West Cemetery, also in Washington. Arrangements were handled by House of Thompson Mortuary in Evanston.


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