NORMA JEAN HARRIS

LAMAR- The family will receive visitors on Monday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., with a funeral service to follow at 2 p.m. at Konantz Warden Funeral Home for Norma Jean (Gage) Harris, 95, Lamar, who died Saturday, April 1, 2023.

Memorial contributions in lieu of flowers can be made to the Barton County Senior Center, in care of the funeral home.

Online condolences may be left at www.konantzwarden.com.

Survivors include her children, Clark W. Harris and wife Donna, Springfield, Kent M. Harris and wife Debbie, Lamar and Peggy C. Quinn and husband Kevin, Columbia, Mo.; grandchildren, Zachary Harris and wife Lindsay, Lamar, Benjamin Harris and wife Alisha, McKinney, Texas, Isaac Harris and wife Lauren, Centerton, Ark., Allison Harris, Bloomington, Ill., Emily Viers, Portland, Ore. and Jacob Viers and fiancée Caty Cote, Savannah, Ga. She is also survived by nine great-grandchildren; a brother, Robert Gage, Arlington, Texas; a sister, Margaret Wattenbarger, Lamar and a sister-in-law, Joyce Gage, Lamar.

She was preceded in death by her husband; a son, Gayle Robert Harris and a brother, William Gage.

Mrs. Harris was born May 22, 1927, in Lamar, to Frank and Effie May (Brummett) Gage. She graduated from high school in Lamar in 1945 and went to one semester of college at Texas Women’s Teachers College in Denton, Texas. She married Robert Welsh Harris in March of 1947, at the Lamar Christian Church. Together they farmed in the Kenoma area until they retired to Lamar in 1979. The two enjoyed traveling throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe.

Mrs. Harris was a homemaker, active community member and supportive farmer’s wife. She was a long time avid bridge player and she also enjoyed reading and writing. She was an active member of the First Christian Church of Lamar and made church attendance each week a priority for her family.