GEORGE HARRIS Jr.

HARRIS

GEORGE JR., was born in Germantown PA, on October 15th 1907, to George B Harris Sr and Elizabeth Holbert Harris. He died at the Quadrangle in Haverford PA on April 23rd 2012. He was 104.
George Harris lived a full and active life. He attended the George School, then graduated from the University of Virginia in 1929. He attended his post graduate classes at University of Hawaii and M.I.T. He spent the Depression Era working odd jobs, selling insurance and riding the rails. He sang in Savoy. Shortly before WWII he volunteered for the Navy and became a celestial navigator on PBM flying boats in the Pacific.
In 1948 he married Florence "Flipper" Butcher of Ardmore PA. He became a Marine Surveyor and settled in Gladwyne PA. He spent his Summers on Martha's Vineyard Island.
George Harris was an avid ice dancer, and a keen sailor on both the water and the ice. He was a skating judge, and President of the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society from 1972-1974. He was also a member of the Fiesta Dance Club, Rotary Inter-national, The Merion Cricket Club, and the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club. He square danced and ballroom danced until he was 101.
He is preceded in death by his brothers, Joseph McDonald Harris and George Brodhead Harris Jr.; his sisters, Marion Fraiser Harris Paul and Elizabeth Harris Stevens; his wife, Flipper B. Harris and his beloved childhood dog, Comanche Nicodemus.
He is survived by his daughters, Lea (Charles Anthony Mitman) Harris, and Starr (Zachary Weeder) Simpson; his grand-children, George Brodhead Simpson and Mary Lea Simpson. A Memorial Service will be held on Friday, June 15th, 11 A.M., at the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church. The family requests no flowers.