Harris, Mabel DeLee – 1895-1927

HARRIS, LONGFELLOW

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 6/1/2017 at 17:46:27

Mrs. Harris Dies Friday Morning
Funeral Services Will be Held Monday Afternoon at Morgan Funeral Home
Funeral services for Mrs. Glen Harris, who died Friday morning at 12:30 o’clock, will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Morgan Funeral home in charge of Rev. R. S. Mills. Burial will be made in the Newton Union cemetery.
Mabel DeLee Longfellow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Longfellow, was born Nov. 22, 1895, three miles north west of Newton. At the time of her death she was 32 years old.
She had been in failing health for the last six months but was seriously ill only a week from pleurisy and pneumonia, and during that time had been under the care of a special nurse at her home six miles northwest of Newton. She had always lived in Jasper county, was a graduate of the Newton high school in the year of 1915. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in Newton and active in Oak Ridge grange work.
On Dec. 26, 1923, she was married to Glen Harris at the Methodist Episcopal parsonage in Newton. After her marriage she moved with her husband to a farm three miles west of Newton known as the Hunter farm where they lived until a year ago when they moved to the Ray Carrier farm six miles northwest of Newton, where she died.
Besides her husband she is survived by two little daughters, Alta Marie, three and one-half years old and Leola May, 14 months old. She is also survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Longfellow, and two brothers, Eben Longfellow of Los Angeles, Calif., and Fred Longfellow, at home.
Source: Newton Daily News; Friday, April 9, 11, 1927

Harris Services are Held Today
Funeral services for Mrs. Glen Harris, who died Friday morning at her home near Newton, were held this afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Morgan Funeral home. Rev. R. S Mills officiated.
Music was furnished by a quartet from the Oak Ridge grange, of which Mrs. Harris was an active member. Will Murdoch, Mrs. Sam Hughes and Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hadley who sang “Nearer My God to Thee” and “Sometime We’ll Understand.” Accompanied by Mrs. Will Murdoch.
Burial was made in the Newton cemetery. The pall bearers included Fred Altemeier, Roy Hagendorn, Lauren Iske, Charles Bair, Charles Iske and Glen Hesson.
Out of town attendants included Eben Longfellow of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Hattie Gardner of Oskaloosa, Ia.
Source: Newton Daily News; Monday, April 11, 1927

Word was received Friday by relatives of the death of Mrs. Glen Harris of Newton.
Source: Newton Daily News; Wednesday, April 13, 1927 (Extracted from Ira News)