Lee Roy Harris

Rev. Lee Roy Harris, 88, a retired minister, died Monday, September 8, 2003 at a Weatherford nursing home.Lee Roy Harris was born February 18, 1915 in Davis, Okla. to Roy C. and Effie Lee Palmer Harris. Rev. Harris had been a Baptist minister since the age of nineteen. He retired from the Civil Service in 1981. Rev. Harris and Mrs. Harris were elected "Volunteers of the Year 1994" for the Weatherford community. During his post retirement years, Rev. Harris continued ministering by driving the Road to Recovery van for cancer patients to go to treatment appointments and visiting "shut-ins" in the local nursing homes. Lee Roy Harris was preceded in death by his first wife, Bessie Laverne Harris. "We see a face that's suffered pain As you strive God's grace to gain. We see a courage mirrored there Not found, perhaps, in one more fair; We see an intense, burning love, A gift to you from God above. No higher compliment could we pay Than the words Joe West was heard to say, 'I think that Jesus taught the way That Lee Roy does here day by day.' And when we all have turned aside To view the past, called Time and Tide, I know we'll all recall with pride The years when Lee Roy was our guide. It makes us sad, of course, to know That we will stay and you will go; But each has his own place to fill- We'll trust in God to do His will. Grant as we journey here below, Each John and Mary, Jane and Joe, We'll meet you often as we go, Wave a friendly hand."Survivors include wife of 22 years, Mary Harris of Weatherford; daughters, Gale Lee Harris of Woodstock, Ill., Ruth Ann Curb of Weatherford, Lisa Coleman of Pleasanton; sons, Sam Collins Harris of Hurst, and Roy Thomas Harris of Killeen; twelve grandchildren; three great grandchildren.