William B. Harris
March 20, 1922 ~ June 15, 2001
Resided in:
Asheville, NC
Mr. Harris was born in Norma, TN, and was a son of the late Bradley and Mary Edith Wright Harris. He was married to Nell Towe Harris who died in 1999. He was a Navy veteran of WW II and was retired from the Air Weather Wing of the US Government. He was a member of St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church.
Surviving are five daughters, Mary Jeanette Oliver of Huntsville, AL, Bonita Clare Patton of Elizabeth City, Virginia Rose Frabizio of Oakhurst, NJ, Joanne Agnes Parker of Asheville, and Elizabeth Ann Huffman of Lawrenceville, GA; one son, Bradley Thomas Harris of Atlanta; one brother, the Rev. Robert E. Harris of Asheville, and nine grandchildren, Stacy Lee, Greg and Jill Patton, Katie Bosarge, Billy and Patti Oliver, Chad Fisher, Brett Parker and Matthew Frabizio.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 am Monday at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church with the Rev. Fr. John M. Pagel officiating. Burial will be at Pisgah View Memorial Park.
His family will receive friends from 7 - 8:30 pm Sunday at Groce Funeral Home on Patton Avenue.
Memorials may be made to St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, 919 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC 28806.
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My prayers are with you in this difficult time. I pray that God will be with you all and will comfort you with fond memories and peace while your father goes home to the Father in Heaven. There he will spend fathers day and every day loving your mother and our father in heaven for eternity.
May God be with you all
Dearest Mary, Bonnie, Libby,
Joanna, & Bradley,
You have our deepest sympathy at the passing of your father.
We know that your pain is also
deepened, by the fact that it
hasn’t been too long since your mother’s death. You are
in our prayers, today & always. May God bless & comfort your sorrow.
Sincerely,
Michael Towe & Family
Dearest Mary, Bonnie, Ginny, Joanna, Libby, & Bradley,
You have our deepest sympathy at the passing of your father.
We also know that your pain is deepened, because his death
has occurred so closely to your mother’s. You are in our
prayers today & always. May
God bless you & comfort your
sorrow.
Sincerely,
Michael Towe & Family
I am a member of his brothers church. Rev. Robert E. Harris
I’m thinking of you all, and you all do have my sympathies on the death of your father, brother, grandfather, uncle, neighbor and friend.