Anne Saunders Harris

REIDSVILLE - Anne Saunders Harris, 99, of 803 Country Club Dr. died peacefully at her home on Wednesday, Feb.13.
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15 in the Chapel of the First Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Greenview Cemetery. A native of Rockingham Co. she was a daughter of the late Richard Loxley and Frances Peyton Bennett Saunders and had lived in Reidsville most of her life. She was a life-long member of the First Baptist Church where she served as a deacon, Chairperson of the Sesquicentennial Celebration and on numerous committees and organizations within the church. Mrs. Harris was a retired school teacher. She began her teaching career in eastern North Carolina and later moved back to Reidsville where she spent most of her career with the Reidsville City Schools. She taught first grade for many years at South End Elementary School. Throughout her long career in education, she helped mold the lives of hundreds of her students, both in and out of the classroom. Mrs. Harris graduated from East Carolina Teachers College (now East Carolina University) and earned her masters degree in Education from the Women's College of the University of North Carolina (now UNC-G). She was a charter member of the Down to Earth Garden Club, and a member of the Alpha Delta Chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma International Society of Educators and the Reidsville Women's Club. In 1998 she was awarded the first Paul A. Mabe Volunteer Award from the Free Clinic of Reidsville and Vicinity where she had volunteered since its inception. Mrs. Harris remained active in the many organizations where she was a member and she frequently hosted the Roundtable Circle Group III and a Bible Study at her home.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Elmer E. Harris; her brothers, James Loxley Saunders, William Junius Saunders and Richard Robertson Saunders; her nieces, Ruth "Susie" Saunders Hooper and Nancy Saunders Bell.
Surviving is a nephew, Richard Robertson Saunders (Minta) of Charlotte; niece, Loxley S. Cannon of Eden; great nieces and nephews, Ruth Clark Hooper Baruch (Richard) of Bryn Mawr, Pen Deborah D. Bell of Asheboro, D. Blakely Bell (Judy) and daughter, Peyton of Asheboro, Clark R. Bell (Diane) and daughters, Blakely and Rebekah of Asheboro, Clara S. Dodd (Thomas) of Charlotte, Richard R. Saunders (Muriel) and children, Jay and Jennifer of Lawrence, Kan. And Reuben M Saunders of Wichita, Kan.
The family will see friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb.14 at Citty Funeral Home and at other times they will be at the residence. The family would like to thank Mrs. Harris' caregivers, Dalice Glosson, Mildred Gwynn, Alma Cross and Carolyn Carter.
Memorials may be made to: First Baptist Church, 409 S. Main St., Reidsville, NC 27320 or Hospice of Rockingham Co., P.O. Box 281 Wentworth, NC 27375.
Condolences may be made to cittyfuneralhome@bellsouth.net