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Extracted from The Northside Sun (Jackson, MS)
Leatrice Arrington
VanLandingham
Harris
Memorial services
were held July 6 at
Covenant Presbyterian
Church for
Leatrice Arrington
VanLandingham
Harris of Jackson.
Mrs. Harris passed into the
hands of her loving God July 3.
She died peacefully at home,
surrounded by her family and
loved ones.
Mrs. Harris was born and
raised in Brookhaven, graduated
from Mississippi State
College for Women (MSCW),
and taught high school English
in Pascagoula and in Pontotoc
before her marriage to Dr.
David Jennings
VanLandingham of West Point
in 1942. After World War II and
medical residencies in
Memphis and Boston, the couple
settled in Jackson where
they raised their three children.
She enjoyed a wide circle of
very dear friends and was
active in a variety of community
groups in Jackson, including
Children's Theater, garden
club, bridge clubs, and investment
club, and served as president
of the PTAat Murrah High
School and later at Callaway
High School. She was a faithful
Sunday School teacher at First
Baptist Church for many years
and took medical mission trips
to Gaza and Bangladesh with
her husband and children in the
early 1970s.
Fifteen years after her first
husband's death, she was
blessed with a second wonderful
husband, Dr. Elmer J.
`Moe' Harris, who had been a
widower for six years when
they married in 1996. Together
they enjoyed 13 active years of
travel, expanded friendships,
active involvement in both
First Baptist and Covenant
Presbyterian churches, and a
very happy fellowship with
their two families.
Survivors are her husband,
Dr. Elmer `Moe' Harris of
Jackson; children David J.
(Carol) VanLandingham Jr. of
Mobile, Rebecca V. Waugh of
Decatur, Ga., Dr. Paul D.
(Wilma) VanLandingham of
Ridgeland; seven grandchildren
in Mississippi and New
York; and two great-grandchildren.
The family would like to
express appreciation to her two
very loving and devoted caregivers,
Gloria Grantham and
Pearl Randle.
Memorials may be made to
Mission First (through First
Baptist Church), Operation
Shoestring, or the Community
Foundation of Greater Jackson.
Thursday, July 9, 2009