Donald Bernard (D.B.) Harrigill,81, retired entrepreneur, U.S. mail contractor, and former owner of O.K. Welding Company died Friday, November 1, 1996, of congestive heart failure and other complications at his home in Brookhaven.
Visitation will be at Brookhaven Funeral Home from 4-10 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3. Funeral services will be 11 a.m., Monday, Nov.4, at the First United Methodist Church in Brookhaven with a Masonic funeral interment at the Fulton Family Cemetery in Hamburg, Franklin County.
During his active years, Mr. Harrigill was an avid boatman, out-doorsman, tracker, and hunter. In later years he derived a great deal of pleasure from his family and especially enjoyed being actively involved in the stock market numbers and real estate investments.
Mr. Harrigill was born in 1915 and became interested in the trucking industry at an early age. He secured his first U.S. mail "Star" route from the Post Office Department in the late 1900's. This business flourished into numerous routes as the years went by and he became one of the largest government mail contractors in the United States. That business continues today under the name of Harrigill Postal Service.
Within a couple of years after he moved to Brookhaven in 1940, he initiated another business under the name O.K. Welding Company, in which he became recognized nationally for his expertise in the fields of steel lubrication and manufacture of heavy duty truck bodies and related equipment. During the years of his business life in Brookhaven, Mr. Harrigill became a respected member of the business and financial communities.
From a family active Freemasonry, Mr. Harrigill was a devoted member of Wahabi Shrine. He was also a 32rd degree Scottish Rite Mason as well as a member of S.B. Stampley Masonic Lodge (F&AM), the York Rite Masonic Bodies, and the Hamburg Baptist Church. In a recent ceremony at his home, he was awarded his 50 year membership pin and certificate in the Wahabi Shrine.
He is preceded in death by his parents and his first wife, Gertrude Ray Harrigill of West (Choctaw County), who died in 1991. His survivors include his wife, Trudy Prather Mullen Harrigill of Brookhaven; his sons, Donald Ray Harrigill of Brookhaven , Alan Howard Harrigill of Brandon, and Bernard Harrigill of Pearl; His daughters, Julie H. Goodyear of Savannah, Tenn, and Muriel H. Nabors of Florance; his sisters, Mabel H. Lovett and Edith H.Fletcher, both of Harrisburg; His brother Fulton Harrigill of Seattle, Wash; Stepson, Wayne Mullen of Jackson, his stepdaughters, Gail M. Patterson of Hattiesburg and Paula H. Hicks of Jacksonville, Fl. six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Visitation will be at Brookhaven Funeral Home from 4-10 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3. Funeral services will be 11 a.m., Monday, Nov.4, at the First United Methodist Church in Brookhaven with a Masonic funeral interment at the Fulton Family Cemetery in Hamburg, Franklin County.
During his active years, Mr. Harrigill was an avid boatman, out-doorsman, tracker, and hunter. In later years he derived a great deal of pleasure from his family and especially enjoyed being actively involved in the stock market numbers and real estate investments.
Mr. Harrigill was born in 1915 and became interested in the trucking industry at an early age. He secured his first U.S. mail "Star" route from the Post Office Department in the late 1900's. This business flourished into numerous routes as the years went by and he became one of the largest government mail contractors in the United States. That business continues today under the name of Harrigill Postal Service.
Within a couple of years after he moved to Brookhaven in 1940, he initiated another business under the name O.K. Welding Company, in which he became recognized nationally for his expertise in the fields of steel lubrication and manufacture of heavy duty truck bodies and related equipment. During the years of his business life in Brookhaven, Mr. Harrigill became a respected member of the business and financial communities.
From a family active Freemasonry, Mr. Harrigill was a devoted member of Wahabi Shrine. He was also a 32rd degree Scottish Rite Mason as well as a member of S.B. Stampley Masonic Lodge (F&AM), the York Rite Masonic Bodies, and the Hamburg Baptist Church. In a recent ceremony at his home, he was awarded his 50 year membership pin and certificate in the Wahabi Shrine.
He is preceded in death by his parents and his first wife, Gertrude Ray Harrigill of West (Choctaw County), who died in 1991. His survivors include his wife, Trudy Prather Mullen Harrigill of Brookhaven; his sons, Donald Ray Harrigill of Brookhaven , Alan Howard Harrigill of Brandon, and Bernard Harrigill of Pearl; His daughters, Julie H. Goodyear of Savannah, Tenn, and Muriel H. Nabors of Florance; his sisters, Mabel H. Lovett and Edith H.Fletcher, both of Harrisburg; His brother Fulton Harrigill of Seattle, Wash; Stepson, Wayne Mullen of Jackson, his stepdaughters, Gail M. Patterson of Hattiesburg and Paula H. Hicks of Jacksonville, Fl. six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Donald Bernard (D.B.) Harrigill,81, retired entrepreneur, U.S. mail contractor, and former owner of O.K. Welding Company died Friday, November 1, 1996, of congestive heart failure and other complications at his home in Brookhaven.
Visitation will be at Brookhaven Funeral Home from 4-10 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3. Funeral services will be 11 a.m., Monday, Nov.4, at the First United Methodist Church in Brookhaven with a Masonic funeral interment at the Fulton Family Cemetery in Hamburg, Franklin County.
During his active years, Mr. Harrigill was an avid boatman, out-doorsman, tracker, and hunter. In later years he derived a great deal of pleasure from his family and especially enjoyed being actively involved in the stock market numbers and real estate investments.
Mr. Harrigill was born in 1915 and became interested in the trucking industry at an early age. He secured his first U.S. mail "Star" route from the Post Office Department in the late 1900's. This business flourished into numerous routes as the years went by and he became one of the largest government mail contractors in the United States. That business continues today under the name of Harrigill Postal Service.
Within a couple of years after he moved to Brookhaven in 1940, he initiated another business under the name O.K. Welding Company, in which he became recognized nationally for his expertise in the fields of steel lubrication and manufacture of heavy duty truck bodies and related equipment. During the years of his business life in Brookhaven, Mr. Harrigill became a respected member of the business and financial communities.
From a family active Freemasonry, Mr. Harrigill was a devoted member of Wahabi Shrine. He was also a 32rd degree Scottish Rite Mason as well as a member of S.B. Stampley Masonic Lodge (F&AM), the York Rite Masonic Bodies, and the Hamburg Baptist Church. In a recent ceremony at his home, he was awarded his 50 year membership pin and certificate in the Wahabi Shrine.
He is preceded in death by his parents and his first wife, Gertrude Ray Harrigill of West (Choctaw County), who died in 1991. His survivors include his wife, Trudy Prather Mullen Harrigill of Brookhaven; his sons, Donald Ray Harrigill of Brookhaven , Alan Howard Harrigill of Brandon, and Bernard Harrigill of Pearl; His daughters, Julie H. Goodyear of Savannah, Tenn, and Muriel H. Nabors of Florance; his sisters, Mabel H. Lovett and Edith H.Fletcher, both of Harrisburg; His brother Fulton Harrigill of Seattle, Wash; Stepson, Wayne Mullen of Jackson, his stepdaughters, Gail M. Patterson of Hattiesburg and Paula H. Hicks of Jacksonville, Fl. six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Visitation will be at Brookhaven Funeral Home from 4-10 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3. Funeral services will be 11 a.m., Monday, Nov.4, at the First United Methodist Church in Brookhaven with a Masonic funeral interment at the Fulton Family Cemetery in Hamburg, Franklin County.
During his active years, Mr. Harrigill was an avid boatman, out-doorsman, tracker, and hunter. In later years he derived a great deal of pleasure from his family and especially enjoyed being actively involved in the stock market numbers and real estate investments.
Mr. Harrigill was born in 1915 and became interested in the trucking industry at an early age. He secured his first U.S. mail "Star" route from the Post Office Department in the late 1900's. This business flourished into numerous routes as the years went by and he became one of the largest government mail contractors in the United States. That business continues today under the name of Harrigill Postal Service.
Within a couple of years after he moved to Brookhaven in 1940, he initiated another business under the name O.K. Welding Company, in which he became recognized nationally for his expertise in the fields of steel lubrication and manufacture of heavy duty truck bodies and related equipment. During the years of his business life in Brookhaven, Mr. Harrigill became a respected member of the business and financial communities.
From a family active Freemasonry, Mr. Harrigill was a devoted member of Wahabi Shrine. He was also a 32rd degree Scottish Rite Mason as well as a member of S.B. Stampley Masonic Lodge (F&AM), the York Rite Masonic Bodies, and the Hamburg Baptist Church. In a recent ceremony at his home, he was awarded his 50 year membership pin and certificate in the Wahabi Shrine.
He is preceded in death by his parents and his first wife, Gertrude Ray Harrigill of West (Choctaw County), who died in 1991. His survivors include his wife, Trudy Prather Mullen Harrigill of Brookhaven; his sons, Donald Ray Harrigill of Brookhaven , Alan Howard Harrigill of Brandon, and Bernard Harrigill of Pearl; His daughters, Julie H. Goodyear of Savannah, Tenn, and Muriel H. Nabors of Florance; his sisters, Mabel H. Lovett and Edith H.Fletcher, both of Harrisburg; His brother Fulton Harrigill of Seattle, Wash; Stepson, Wayne Mullen of Jackson, his stepdaughters, Gail M. Patterson of Hattiesburg and Paula H. Hicks of Jacksonville, Fl. six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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