DENITIA HARRIS

ADA-Services for Denitia Harris, 88, Ada, are 11:00 a.m. Wednesday at the Rollow Chapel of the First United Methodist Church, Rev. Bob Langston will officiate. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery in Durant.

Mrs. Harris died Monday, October 13, 2008 at a local nursing home. She was born September 3, 1920 at Perry, Florida to Alfred and Effie Heflin Wright. She graduated from high school at Monroe, Louisiana, received a Bachelor of Science degree from Louisiana State University and a Master's degree in Nutrition from the University of Oklahoma.

She married George D. Harris on November 26, 1946. He died May 9, 1989. During World War II, she was a civilian employee with the U. S. Army Air Corps. She taught aircraft instruments and visual aircraft recognition. Mrs. Harris taught Home Economics at Monroe, Louisiana and Allen, Oklahoma. She was on the East Central University faculty in the Home Economics department. She also worked as a licensed dietitian for the Chickasaw Nation. Mrs. Harris was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Ada.

Survivors include a daughter, Denitia St. Clair and husband Ron, Ada; a son, George Dean Harris Jr., and wife Susie, Bartlesville; a grandson, Nathan Ray Poteet, Hennessey, OK; a granddaughter, Michelle Denitia Poteet, Japan; a niece, Pahnea Ratty and her husband Mike, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and a nephew, Tay Moore, California.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada