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1st Obituary : Printed in the Oct. 24, 2006 Pilot-Tribune, Blair, Nebraska

Hazel N. Harris, 89

Hazel N. Harris, 89, of Blair, died Saturday, Oct. 21, 2006 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Home in Blair.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, at First United Methodist Church in Blair. Interment will be in the Blair Cemetery.

Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25 at Campbell-Aman Funeral Home in Blair, with the family receiving friends from 6 to 8 p.m.

Hazel Naomi Dannelly was born Dec. 29, 1916, in Genoa. She was the fourth of 12 children born to Walter and Lottie Dannelly. She started school in the fall of 1921 at District 30 (Nance County) and graduated from Genoa High School in 1934.

She had many academic accomplishments, one of which was being named the 1930 Omaha World-Herald spelling bee champion for Nance County.

In 1934, she began teaching in District No. 63 in Nance County and taught there until 1937. She finished the last 25 years with Blair Community Schools, where she primarily taught 5th grade.

On Dec. 23, 1938, she married Ross Henry Harris in Fremont. The couple bought their farm, “The 80” in 1941 in Platte County. Although no one has lived on the farm for years, it is still a working farmland considered a family treasure. Mr. and Mrs. Harris purchased their home on Nebraska Street in Blair in 1952. Mrs. Harris lived there until August of 2006, when her health required her admittance into the hospital.

Before and after retiring, she was active in numerous organizations at the United Methodist Church, with Delta Kappa Gamma, the Monday Afternoon Club, and her bridge club. She assisted in the development of the 5th grade outdoor education program for Blair Community Schools which is held at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge.

She was also known as an accomplished seamstress from a young age. Though she sewed throughout her life, since retirement she has quilted and made practical items for the annual church bazaar. Her quilts cover the Midwest from family and friends, to infants with AIDS through the former ABC quilting program at Methodist Hospital.

She is survived by her children, Dr. Marvin K. and Cuihua Harris, Jane and Alan Svengard, Janelle and Phil Reichling, Jerrie and Phil Glassman, and Max and Lauri Harris; 12 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; four step-grandchildren; and one step-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Ross; two sisters, Francis Innis and Alice Harsh; five brothers: Earl, Chet, Kenneth, Everett “Bill” and Glenn Dannelly; son-in-law Ronald Price; two grandsons, Mark and Richard Harris; and a granddaughter, Melissa Price.

2nd obituary: Printed in the Oct. 24, 2006 World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska.

HARRIS—Hazel N., age 89, of Blair. Survived by sons and daughters-in-law, Max and Laurie Harris Blair, NE; Marvin and Cuihua Harris College Station, Texas, daughters and sons-in-law, Jane and Alan Svengard, Blair, NE, Jerrie and Phillip Glassman, Omaha, NE, Janelle and Dennis Reichling Omaha, NE.

Services 10:30 A.M. Thursday, First United Methodist Church, Blair. Burial Blair Cemetery. Visitation will begin 10 AM Wednesday with family receiving friends from 6 to 8 PM.

CAMPBELL-AMAN FUNERAL HOME Blair, NE 402-426-2191

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Association. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska ~~~

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