Bessie
E, Harrison, 89, a life resident of Newport, died at 4:16 p.m. Thursday, Sept.
4, at Regional Hospital, Terre Haute. She had been in ill health four years.
She was born Nov. 9, 1896, in Vermillion County, the daughter of Allen and
Elizabeth Agree Haworth. She married William H. Harrison in Newport. He died
Oct. 18, 1941. Besides being a homemaker, she worked at Castle Shannon Nursing
Home in Rockville. She was a charter member of the Church of God in Newport.
She was a Gold Star Mother and a charter member of the Newport American Legion
Auxiliary. Surviving are five
daughters, Elizabeth Jaynes, Theodosia, Mo.; Martha Norman, Denver; Ruth
McCann, Veedersburg; Mary Sweitzer, Dubuque, Colo., and Norma Smith, Zionsville;
three sons, George and James Harrison, both of Newport, and John Harrison,
Denver; 32 grandchildren, several great-grandchildren and several
great-great-grandchildren, and a brother, William Haworth, Newport. She was also preceded
in death by son,
William H. Harrison, her parents, three brothers and three sisters. Funeral
services were held at 11 a.m. Monday at DeVerter Brothers Funeral Home, Cayuga,
with the Rev.. Jack Gambill officiating. Burial was in Thomas Cemetery in
Newport. Star Tribune, Attica, Indiana,
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