SYRACUSE — Thelma Harris, 99, formerly of the Barbee Lake area, passed away Thursday, June 29, 2017, at Lakeland Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, Milford.
She was born May 12, 1918, in West Virginia, to Alex and Ethel Taylor Hargis.
She worked as an assistant librarian for an advertising firm in Chicago. She lived most of her life between Illinois and Indiana.
She was a member of Wawasee Lakeside Chapel.
She is survived by her daughter, Jackie (Pete Gawthrop) McDonald, Syracuse.; two grandsons, Kent Carter, Naples, Fla., and Timothy (Michelle) Carter, Huntertown; two great-grandchildren, Christopher Boutcher, Warsaw, and Aaron (Sarah) Boutcher, Warsaw; and a great-great-grandson, Miles Boutcher.
She was preceded by her husband, Delmar Harris, and her granddaughter, Terry Carter-Boutcher.
Services will be private. Eastlund Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
