ALLEN EDWARD HARRIS, 68, passed away on
May 2, 2001 in Oklahoma City, OK.
He was born on Oct. 17, 1932, in Caseyville, IL, to
Lawrence Montgomery & Ruth Marie (Chamberlain)
Harris. He retired from Halliburton as a Senior
Research and Development Mechanical Engineer and
then worked in real estate appraisal and sales.
Allen had only attended Ranger High School at Ranger,
TX for one year when his parents moved to Strawn. He
attended school in Strawn and then graduated high
school at Missouri City. He attended the University
of Houston and in 1960 graduated from Oklahoma Uni-
versity with a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering
after a stint in the Army, serving in Germany. He
married Kay Rakestraw. He had two sons from a
previous marriage; Phillip Harris is a Vice-President
for Ikon and lives in Danville, CA, and Rex Harris
is a Senior Project Manager for Disney and lives
in San Clemente, CA.