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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Harris, Bernice Luella McVay
Bernice Luella Harris, 93, of Elkins Park, Pa., died Aug. 8, 2003, at Abington Memorial Hospital.
Bernice Luella McVay was born Dec. 24, 1909, in Ingersoll, Okla., to Arthur O. McVay and Edith Albertine Armstrong McVay.
Mrs. Harris attended elementary schools in Oklahoma and high school in El Dorado. After graduating from El Dorado Junior College in 1929 she began her career as an elementary school teacher in Kansas in 1931. She started out in rural one-room
schools in Butler County, teaching briefly in Overbrook and then serving as a teacher for eight years in Cottonwood Falls. She taught the fifth and sixth grades at Skyline School in Shawnee Mission School District in suburban Kansas City until she retired in 1974.
She moved to Pennsylvania in 1990 to live with her daughter when her blindness made it impossible for her to continue living on her own.
She was a member of P.E.O. International and a Charter Member of
Chapter F.N. of P.E.O. International.
Mrs. Harris is survived by a daughter, Marilyn Kay Harris of Elkins Park, Pa.; a son Gary Kim Harris of Henderson, Nev.; two grandchildren; and a sister, Laree Watson, of Augusta.
Burial was in Augusta. Helweg Funeral Service Inc. of Jenkintown, Pa. was in charge of the service.
Donations may be made in her memory to the Montgomery County Association for the Blind, 212 North Main Street, North Wales, Pa. 19454.
Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Aug 14,2003
by Lorna Marvin
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