LAURA ALICE HARRIS

© Published in Enid, OK. News

Monday, December 12, 2005

Submitted and © by Sylva Rhodes

© Glenn

LAURA ALICE HARRIS

The funeral for Laura Alice Harris, 90, of Helena, OK., will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Helena Nazarene Church. The Rev. Dean Holt will officiate. Burial will be in Good Hope Cemetery south of Helena. Arrangements are by Lanman Funeral Home Inc., Helena. The casket will be open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home, and after the service at the church on Tuesday.

She was born Nov. 5, 1915, at Lambert, OK. to John and Laura Smith Galer and died Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005, at Great Plains Care Center, Helena, OK.

She married Vernon D. Stanley Nov. 23, 1933. She and A. V. Harris were married April 2, 1961. He died in 1990.

She lived in Sheridan Lake, Colo., from 1950 to 1999, when she moved to Helena, OK.

She attended Helena Nazarene Church. She was one of the first women to pass a welding test to build ships during World War II at Vancouver Wash., shipyard.

Surviving are her daughter, Verna Powell of Helena; three stepchildren, Merle Harris of Hillrose, Colo., Shirley Watts of Eads, Colo., and Wesley Harris of Colo.; two sisters, Florence Copeland of Pocatello, Idaho, and Billie Hawley of Yucaipa, Calif.; seven grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter.

Besides her husband, A. V., she was preceded in death by one son, three brothers and two sisters.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Great Plains Care Center.