Floyd E. Harber, 63
Former Educator, Dies
Gazette State News Service -February 4, 1971
Blytheville - Floyd E. Harber, aged 63, of Blytheville, a retired school administrator died Saturday.
Mr Harber, former principal of Gosnell Junior High School, was prominent in the news in 1969 and 1970 for his court action over what he contended was falsification of average daily school attendance figures in the Gosnell School District. Mr Harber contended that he had been fired as principal of the junior high because he objected to this practice. The amount of state turnback funds for a school district is based on these attendance figures.
A Pulaski County Chancery Court dismissed Mr. Harber's suit to require the state Board of Education to act on his charges, but the state Supreme Court last June reversed this decision and ordered the case transferred to circuit court.
A native of Rector, Mr. Harber was a graduate of Arkansas State University and the University of Arkansas. He was a member of First Baptist Church here and the Association of School Principals.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Edna Underwood Harber; two sons, Max Harber of Arizona and Eddie Harber of Little Rock; a daughter, Mrs. Roberta Smith of Massachusetts; three brothers, W. E. Harber of South Korea, Delbert Harber of New Mexico and Virgil Harber of California; three sisters, Mrs. Lucille Moore and Mrs. Etoila Shaw, both of California, and Mrs. Mildred Meriwether of Michigan, and three grandchildren.
Mr. Harber was buried in Mitchell Cemetery in Greenway Tuesday. He was a relative of Mrs. O. J. Barker and the Massey family and others in this area.
Obit in Courier News (Blytheville, Arkansas)
Floyd E. Harber of Gosnell, a retired school administrator and former principal of Gosnell Jr High School died Saturday in Chickasawba Hospital. Born at Rector, he has been a resident here since 1960. He was a member of the first Baptist Church, a member of the Association of School Principals as well as a graduate of Arkansas State University and the University of Arkansas.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edna Underwood Harber of Gosnell; Two sons, Max Harber of Phoenix and Eddy Harber of Little Rock; one daughter Mrs. Roberta Smith of Boston; three brothers W. E Harber of Seoul Korea, Delbert Harber of Silver City, N. M. and Virgil Harber of Redding, Calif; And three granddaughters. Services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Cobb Funeral Home chapel, Rev Alvis Carpenter and Rev James Fitzgerald officiating. Buriel will be in Mitchell Cemetery at Greenway Ark.
Pallbearers will be Garrett Abbott, K. B. Barker, Fred Boyett, Tommy Bogan, Harvey Chapman, A. R. Peek, T.Y. Clanton and J.P. Friend.
From 2/4/1989 interview with Mildred Meriwether (Floyd's sister):
We (including Floyd) went to the TiWhop School. School was free until the 8th grade in the country. In the city, it was $5 a month tuition for high school. Floyd was the only one to go [to HS]. He did chores and then walked to and from school. Floyd worked at a dairy to get through college. Floyd had the highest education degree of anyone in the county.
He insisted on brushing his teeth with baking soda and salt every day.
At that time, the farmers grew cotton and corn. Floyd talked his dad into planting soy beans that someone brought into the town meeting. They kept saving seeds until they had enough to plant a field.
Former Educator, Dies
Gazette State News Service -February 4, 1971
Blytheville - Floyd E. Harber, aged 63, of Blytheville, a retired school administrator died Saturday.
Mr Harber, former principal of Gosnell Junior High School, was prominent in the news in 1969 and 1970 for his court action over what he contended was falsification of average daily school attendance figures in the Gosnell School District. Mr Harber contended that he had been fired as principal of the junior high because he objected to this practice. The amount of state turnback funds for a school district is based on these attendance figures.
A Pulaski County Chancery Court dismissed Mr. Harber's suit to require the state Board of Education to act on his charges, but the state Supreme Court last June reversed this decision and ordered the case transferred to circuit court.
A native of Rector, Mr. Harber was a graduate of Arkansas State University and the University of Arkansas. He was a member of First Baptist Church here and the Association of School Principals.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Edna Underwood Harber; two sons, Max Harber of Arizona and Eddie Harber of Little Rock; a daughter, Mrs. Roberta Smith of Massachusetts; three brothers, W. E. Harber of South Korea, Delbert Harber of New Mexico and Virgil Harber of California; three sisters, Mrs. Lucille Moore and Mrs. Etoila Shaw, both of California, and Mrs. Mildred Meriwether of Michigan, and three grandchildren.
Mr. Harber was buried in Mitchell Cemetery in Greenway Tuesday. He was a relative of Mrs. O. J. Barker and the Massey family and others in this area.
Obit in Courier News (Blytheville, Arkansas)
Floyd E. Harber of Gosnell, a retired school administrator and former principal of Gosnell Jr High School died Saturday in Chickasawba Hospital. Born at Rector, he has been a resident here since 1960. He was a member of the first Baptist Church, a member of the Association of School Principals as well as a graduate of Arkansas State University and the University of Arkansas.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edna Underwood Harber of Gosnell; Two sons, Max Harber of Phoenix and Eddy Harber of Little Rock; one daughter Mrs. Roberta Smith of Boston; three brothers W. E Harber of Seoul Korea, Delbert Harber of Silver City, N. M. and Virgil Harber of Redding, Calif; And three granddaughters. Services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Cobb Funeral Home chapel, Rev Alvis Carpenter and Rev James Fitzgerald officiating. Buriel will be in Mitchell Cemetery at Greenway Ark.
Pallbearers will be Garrett Abbott, K. B. Barker, Fred Boyett, Tommy Bogan, Harvey Chapman, A. R. Peek, T.Y. Clanton and J.P. Friend.
From 2/4/1989 interview with Mildred Meriwether (Floyd's sister):
We (including Floyd) went to the TiWhop School. School was free until the 8th grade in the country. In the city, it was $5 a month tuition for high school. Floyd was the only one to go [to HS]. He did chores and then walked to and from school. Floyd worked at a dairy to get through college. Floyd had the highest education degree of anyone in the county.
He insisted on brushing his teeth with baking soda and salt every day.
At that time, the farmers grew cotton and corn. Floyd talked his dad into planting soy beans that someone brought into the town meeting. They kept saving seeds until they had enough to plant a field.
Floyd E. Harber, 63
Former Educator, Dies
Gazette State News Service -February 4, 1971
Blytheville - Floyd E. Harber, aged 63, of Blytheville, a retired school administrator died Saturday.
Mr Harber, former principal of Gosnell Junior High School, was prominent in the news in 1969 and 1970 for his court action over what he contended was falsification of average daily school attendance figures in the Gosnell School District. Mr Harber contended that he had been fired as principal of the junior high because he objected to this practice. The amount of state turnback funds for a school district is based on these attendance figures.
A Pulaski County Chancery Court dismissed Mr. Harber's suit to require the state Board of Education to act on his charges, but the state Supreme Court last June reversed this decision and ordered the case transferred to circuit court.
A native of Rector, Mr. Harber was a graduate of Arkansas State University and the University of Arkansas. He was a member of First Baptist Church here and the Association of School Principals.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Edna Underwood Harber; two sons, Max Harber of Arizona and Eddie Harber of Little Rock; a daughter, Mrs. Roberta Smith of Massachusetts; three brothers, W. E. Harber of South Korea, Delbert Harber of New Mexico and Virgil Harber of California; three sisters, Mrs. Lucille Moore and Mrs. Etoila Shaw, both of California, and Mrs. Mildred Meriwether of Michigan, and three grandchildren.
Mr. Harber was buried in Mitchell Cemetery in Greenway Tuesday. He was a relative of Mrs. O. J. Barker and the Massey family and others in this area.
Obit in Courier News (Blytheville, Arkansas)
Floyd E. Harber of Gosnell, a retired school administrator and former principal of Gosnell Jr High School died Saturday in Chickasawba Hospital. Born at Rector, he has been a resident here since 1960. He was a member of the first Baptist Church, a member of the Association of School Principals as well as a graduate of Arkansas State University and the University of Arkansas.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edna Underwood Harber of Gosnell; Two sons, Max Harber of Phoenix and Eddy Harber of Little Rock; one daughter Mrs. Roberta Smith of Boston; three brothers W. E Harber of Seoul Korea, Delbert Harber of Silver City, N. M. and Virgil Harber of Redding, Calif; And three granddaughters. Services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Cobb Funeral Home chapel, Rev Alvis Carpenter and Rev James Fitzgerald officiating. Buriel will be in Mitchell Cemetery at Greenway Ark.
Pallbearers will be Garrett Abbott, K. B. Barker, Fred Boyett, Tommy Bogan, Harvey Chapman, A. R. Peek, T.Y. Clanton and J.P. Friend.
From 2/4/1989 interview with Mildred Meriwether (Floyd's sister):
We (including Floyd) went to the TiWhop School. School was free until the 8th grade in the country. In the city, it was $5 a month tuition for high school. Floyd was the only one to go [to HS]. He did chores and then walked to and from school. Floyd worked at a dairy to get through college. Floyd had the highest education degree of anyone in the county.
He insisted on brushing his teeth with baking soda and salt every day.
At that time, the farmers grew cotton and corn. Floyd talked his dad into planting soy beans that someone brought into the town meeting. They kept saving seeds until they had enough to plant a field.
Former Educator, Dies
Gazette State News Service -February 4, 1971
Blytheville - Floyd E. Harber, aged 63, of Blytheville, a retired school administrator died Saturday.
Mr Harber, former principal of Gosnell Junior High School, was prominent in the news in 1969 and 1970 for his court action over what he contended was falsification of average daily school attendance figures in the Gosnell School District. Mr Harber contended that he had been fired as principal of the junior high because he objected to this practice. The amount of state turnback funds for a school district is based on these attendance figures.
A Pulaski County Chancery Court dismissed Mr. Harber's suit to require the state Board of Education to act on his charges, but the state Supreme Court last June reversed this decision and ordered the case transferred to circuit court.
A native of Rector, Mr. Harber was a graduate of Arkansas State University and the University of Arkansas. He was a member of First Baptist Church here and the Association of School Principals.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Edna Underwood Harber; two sons, Max Harber of Arizona and Eddie Harber of Little Rock; a daughter, Mrs. Roberta Smith of Massachusetts; three brothers, W. E. Harber of South Korea, Delbert Harber of New Mexico and Virgil Harber of California; three sisters, Mrs. Lucille Moore and Mrs. Etoila Shaw, both of California, and Mrs. Mildred Meriwether of Michigan, and three grandchildren.
Mr. Harber was buried in Mitchell Cemetery in Greenway Tuesday. He was a relative of Mrs. O. J. Barker and the Massey family and others in this area.
Obit in Courier News (Blytheville, Arkansas)
Floyd E. Harber of Gosnell, a retired school administrator and former principal of Gosnell Jr High School died Saturday in Chickasawba Hospital. Born at Rector, he has been a resident here since 1960. He was a member of the first Baptist Church, a member of the Association of School Principals as well as a graduate of Arkansas State University and the University of Arkansas.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edna Underwood Harber of Gosnell; Two sons, Max Harber of Phoenix and Eddy Harber of Little Rock; one daughter Mrs. Roberta Smith of Boston; three brothers W. E Harber of Seoul Korea, Delbert Harber of Silver City, N. M. and Virgil Harber of Redding, Calif; And three granddaughters. Services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Cobb Funeral Home chapel, Rev Alvis Carpenter and Rev James Fitzgerald officiating. Buriel will be in Mitchell Cemetery at Greenway Ark.
Pallbearers will be Garrett Abbott, K. B. Barker, Fred Boyett, Tommy Bogan, Harvey Chapman, A. R. Peek, T.Y. Clanton and J.P. Friend.
From 2/4/1989 interview with Mildred Meriwether (Floyd's sister):
We (including Floyd) went to the TiWhop School. School was free until the 8th grade in the country. In the city, it was $5 a month tuition for high school. Floyd was the only one to go [to HS]. He did chores and then walked to and from school. Floyd worked at a dairy to get through college. Floyd had the highest education degree of anyone in the county.
He insisted on brushing his teeth with baking soda and salt every day.
At that time, the farmers grew cotton and corn. Floyd talked his dad into planting soy beans that someone brought into the town meeting. They kept saving seeds until they had enough to plant a field.
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