Rev. Will Dudd "Jack" Harris
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OBITUARY

HARRIS - Will Dudd, age 32, passed away early Thursday. Survived by wife, Mrs. Mary Harris; two children, Billie Jack and Betty Jane: father and mother, Mrs. and Mrs. J. M. Harris, all of Grapevine; two brothers, H. F., Dallas; J. F., Los Angeles; five sisters, Mrs. Modine Rhobach, Mrs. Irene LaFlana, Mrs. Elmer Flanagan, all of California; Mrs. Mary J. Gentry, Wichita Falls, Texas; Dot Harris, Grapevine. Services Friday 10 a.m. Carrollton Union Baptist Church. Interment Perry Cemetery. Arrangements Rhoton Funeral Home, Carrollton, Texas.

The Dallas Morning News - June 13, 1941
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

OBITUARY

Rail Workman Is Killed Wed. Night

Rev. Jack Harris Is Run Over by Train

Rev. Jack Harris, 33, an employee of the Cotton Belt Railroad, was killed instantly about one o'clock this (Thursday) morning when he was run over by an East Bound train about three miles west of Carrollton.
Harris was an employee of the rail road and was watching a bridge which was endangered by the flood waters for the company last night. No details were available, and company officials could not be reached Thursday morning for a statement but it was reported that he must have fallen asleep because he was lying across the tracks. The heavy freight engine ran over the body severing the head from the body and tearing off one arm. The engineer is reported to have seen the body, but was unable to stop the heavy freight train as such a short distance.
Harris, formerly of Carrollton, moved to Grapevine last November when he went to work for the Cotton Belt under his father, J. M. Harris, section foreman at Grapevine. Young Harris was a minister in the Union Baptist church.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mary Harris, formerly Mary Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Anderson; two daughters, Billie Jack, 10 and Betty Jane, 4; mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Harris of Grapevine, two brothers, Hazel Harris of Dallas and Floyd Harris of California; five sisters.
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The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, June 13, 1941
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

 

 


 

Rev. Jack W. D. - JULY 23, 1908 - JUNE 12, 1941
MARY E. - June 2, 1941- BLANK

Perry Cemetery, Carrollton, Dallas County, Texas
 

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