Claude M. “Dutch” Harrington
Claude M. “Dutch” Harrington, a resident of the Borger,Texas area from 1926 to 1984 and a City Commissioner during the 1950s, died at his home in Missouri City, Texas, of natural causes on July 21, 2008, aged 92. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m., Friday, at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in Houston,Texas following interment at Forest Park mausoleum in Houston,Texas.
Born April 3, 1916, in Newton, Kansas, Claude Marion was the youngest of the four surviving sons of oilfield teaming contractor John Joseph Lawrence Harrington and his wife, Mary Lena Buss. As a boy, Claude’s brothers nicknamed him “Dutch,” a moniker that stuck with him for life.
The oil boom of the mid-1920s brought the Harrington family to the Borger area, where the senior Harrington established an oilfield trucking business that eventually employed all four of his sons. (After the founder’s death in 1942,his sons renamed the business J.J. Harrington Sons Trucking Company.) Coming to Borger in July 1926 from their home in the Kansas oilfields, the Harringtons shipped their household goods, teaming horses and wagons by rail to Panhandle, and from there they traveled to the new boomtown of Borger by horse and wagon, with young Claude leading the family into town on a Shetland pony. The family soon settled in Phillips where Claude lived until leaving for military service.
With no high school yet in Phillips, Harrington attended Borger High School, where he played on the tennis team and wrote for the school newspaper. After graduation in 1935, he joined his father’s trucking company where he worked, with time out only for military service, until he and his brother, Merle, sold the business in 1968.
With war threatening, Harrington enlisted in the Army Air Corps in September 1941, and he trained as an aerial engineer and topgunner on a B-17. Harrington married his high school classmate, Christine Rider, on November 1, 1941, a marriage that endured until Mrs. Harrington’s death in July 1987.
Appointed sergeant in April 1943, Harrington was honorably discharged from the Army on medical grounds in August 1943, and he returned home to rejoin his brothers in the oilfield trucking business.
After the war, Harrington and his wife bought a home in Borger, where he was active in civic affairs, serving as a City Commissioner during the 1950s and as a member of the Tax Equalization Board and the Hutchinson County Airport Zoning Board. Gateway subdivision was developed during Harrington’s tenure on City Commission, and Harrington Road there was named in his honor. He was a charter member of the Knife and Fork Club and Wesley United Methodist Church. An aviation enthusiast since boyhood, Harrington learned to fly before the war and afterwards owned and piloted several private airplanes, including a P-51 Mustang.
After selling the family trucking business, Harrington joined the Borger ISD as a vocational instructor. He retired from teaching in 1983, and he and Mrs. Harrington relocated to Houston in 1984 to be near their two children’s families.
Claude “Dutch” Harrington was the last survivor of his immediate family. His mother died in 1932; his father, in 1942; and his three elder brothers, Joe L., Frank W. and Merle F. Harrington, died in 1957, 1968 and 2000, respectively.
Harrington’s survivors include his son and daughter-in-law, C. Michael and Josephine Hall Harrington of Sugar Land, and his daughter and son-in-law, Joe Ann and Kenneth P. Kingdon, Jr. of Missouri City. He is also survived by five grandchildren: Ann Christine Dull (and her husband, John William Dull, Jr.) of Houston; Carol Lee Nicosia (and her husband, Patrick V. Nicosia, Jr.) of Houston; Lt. Kenneth M. Kingdon, M.D., U.S.N. (and his wife, Lisa) of San Diego, CA; Averill Harrington Conn (and her husband, David K. Conn) of Houston; and Jane Mackay Harrington of Houston. Four great granddaughters also survive: Carolyn Ann, Kathryn Mae and Constance Lee Dull and Anne Louise Nicosia.
Survivors in the Borger area are sister-in-law Alice L. Harrington and nephews Clyde L. and Robert E. Harrington, all of Borger, and brother-in-law W. Larry Rider of Fritch.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, 11612 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77024, or to the charity of your choice.
(Published in Borger News Herald, July 22, 2008)
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CLAUDE M. HARRINGTON, a retired oilfield trucking contractor, died peacefully at his home in Missouri City on July 21, 2008, aged 92. A memorial service will be conducted on Friday, July 25, at 2 p.m. at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church. Mr. Harrington's local survivors include his son, C. Michael Harrington (and wife Jody) of Sugar Land, and his daughter, Joe Ann Kingdon (and husband Kenneth) of Missouri City, and his four granddaughters, Christy Dull (and husband John), Carol Nicosia (and husband Patrick), Averill Conn (and husband David) and Jane Harrington, all of Houston.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, 11612 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77024, or to the charity of one's choice.
(Published in Houston Chronicle from July 23 to July 25, 2008)
Claude M. “Dutch” Harrington, a resident of the Borger,Texas area from 1926 to 1984 and a City Commissioner during the 1950s, died at his home in Missouri City, Texas, of natural causes on July 21, 2008, aged 92. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m., Friday, at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in Houston,Texas following interment at Forest Park mausoleum in Houston,Texas.
Born April 3, 1916, in Newton, Kansas, Claude Marion was the youngest of the four surviving sons of oilfield teaming contractor John Joseph Lawrence Harrington and his wife, Mary Lena Buss. As a boy, Claude’s brothers nicknamed him “Dutch,” a moniker that stuck with him for life.
The oil boom of the mid-1920s brought the Harrington family to the Borger area, where the senior Harrington established an oilfield trucking business that eventually employed all four of his sons. (After the founder’s death in 1942,his sons renamed the business J.J. Harrington Sons Trucking Company.) Coming to Borger in July 1926 from their home in the Kansas oilfields, the Harringtons shipped their household goods, teaming horses and wagons by rail to Panhandle, and from there they traveled to the new boomtown of Borger by horse and wagon, with young Claude leading the family into town on a Shetland pony. The family soon settled in Phillips where Claude lived until leaving for military service.
With no high school yet in Phillips, Harrington attended Borger High School, where he played on the tennis team and wrote for the school newspaper. After graduation in 1935, he joined his father’s trucking company where he worked, with time out only for military service, until he and his brother, Merle, sold the business in 1968.
With war threatening, Harrington enlisted in the Army Air Corps in September 1941, and he trained as an aerial engineer and topgunner on a B-17. Harrington married his high school classmate, Christine Rider, on November 1, 1941, a marriage that endured until Mrs. Harrington’s death in July 1987.
Appointed sergeant in April 1943, Harrington was honorably discharged from the Army on medical grounds in August 1943, and he returned home to rejoin his brothers in the oilfield trucking business.
After the war, Harrington and his wife bought a home in Borger, where he was active in civic affairs, serving as a City Commissioner during the 1950s and as a member of the Tax Equalization Board and the Hutchinson County Airport Zoning Board. Gateway subdivision was developed during Harrington’s tenure on City Commission, and Harrington Road there was named in his honor. He was a charter member of the Knife and Fork Club and Wesley United Methodist Church. An aviation enthusiast since boyhood, Harrington learned to fly before the war and afterwards owned and piloted several private airplanes, including a P-51 Mustang.
After selling the family trucking business, Harrington joined the Borger ISD as a vocational instructor. He retired from teaching in 1983, and he and Mrs. Harrington relocated to Houston in 1984 to be near their two children’s families.
Claude “Dutch” Harrington was the last survivor of his immediate family. His mother died in 1932; his father, in 1942; and his three elder brothers, Joe L., Frank W. and Merle F. Harrington, died in 1957, 1968 and 2000, respectively.
Harrington’s survivors include his son and daughter-in-law, C. Michael and Josephine Hall Harrington of Sugar Land, and his daughter and son-in-law, Joe Ann and Kenneth P. Kingdon, Jr. of Missouri City. He is also survived by five grandchildren: Ann Christine Dull (and her husband, John William Dull, Jr.) of Houston; Carol Lee Nicosia (and her husband, Patrick V. Nicosia, Jr.) of Houston; Lt. Kenneth M. Kingdon, M.D., U.S.N. (and his wife, Lisa) of San Diego, CA; Averill Harrington Conn (and her husband, David K. Conn) of Houston; and Jane Mackay Harrington of Houston. Four great granddaughters also survive: Carolyn Ann, Kathryn Mae and Constance Lee Dull and Anne Louise Nicosia.
Survivors in the Borger area are sister-in-law Alice L. Harrington and nephews Clyde L. and Robert E. Harrington, all of Borger, and brother-in-law W. Larry Rider of Fritch.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, 11612 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77024, or to the charity of your choice.
(Published in Borger News Herald, July 22, 2008)
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CLAUDE M. HARRINGTON, a retired oilfield trucking contractor, died peacefully at his home in Missouri City on July 21, 2008, aged 92. A memorial service will be conducted on Friday, July 25, at 2 p.m. at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church. Mr. Harrington's local survivors include his son, C. Michael Harrington (and wife Jody) of Sugar Land, and his daughter, Joe Ann Kingdon (and husband Kenneth) of Missouri City, and his four granddaughters, Christy Dull (and husband John), Carol Nicosia (and husband Patrick), Averill Conn (and husband David) and Jane Harrington, all of Houston.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, 11612 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77024, or to the charity of one's choice.
(Published in Houston Chronicle from July 23 to July 25, 2008)
Claude M. “Dutch” Harrington
Claude M. “Dutch” Harrington, a resident of the Borger,Texas area from 1926 to 1984 and a City Commissioner during the 1950s, died at his home in Missouri City, Texas, of natural causes on July 21, 2008, aged 92. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m., Friday, at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in Houston,Texas following interment at Forest Park mausoleum in Houston,Texas.
Born April 3, 1916, in Newton, Kansas, Claude Marion was the youngest of the four surviving sons of oilfield teaming contractor John Joseph Lawrence Harrington and his wife, Mary Lena Buss. As a boy, Claude’s brothers nicknamed him “Dutch,” a moniker that stuck with him for life.
The oil boom of the mid-1920s brought the Harrington family to the Borger area, where the senior Harrington established an oilfield trucking business that eventually employed all four of his sons. (After the founder’s death in 1942,his sons renamed the business J.J. Harrington Sons Trucking Company.) Coming to Borger in July 1926 from their home in the Kansas oilfields, the Harringtons shipped their household goods, teaming horses and wagons by rail to Panhandle, and from there they traveled to the new boomtown of Borger by horse and wagon, with young Claude leading the family into town on a Shetland pony. The family soon settled in Phillips where Claude lived until leaving for military service.
With no high school yet in Phillips, Harrington attended Borger High School, where he played on the tennis team and wrote for the school newspaper. After graduation in 1935, he joined his father’s trucking company where he worked, with time out only for military service, until he and his brother, Merle, sold the business in 1968.
With war threatening, Harrington enlisted in the Army Air Corps in September 1941, and he trained as an aerial engineer and topgunner on a B-17. Harrington married his high school classmate, Christine Rider, on November 1, 1941, a marriage that endured until Mrs. Harrington’s death in July 1987.
Appointed sergeant in April 1943, Harrington was honorably discharged from the Army on medical grounds in August 1943, and he returned home to rejoin his brothers in the oilfield trucking business.
After the war, Harrington and his wife bought a home in Borger, where he was active in civic affairs, serving as a City Commissioner during the 1950s and as a member of the Tax Equalization Board and the Hutchinson County Airport Zoning Board. Gateway subdivision was developed during Harrington’s tenure on City Commission, and Harrington Road there was named in his honor. He was a charter member of the Knife and Fork Club and Wesley United Methodist Church. An aviation enthusiast since boyhood, Harrington learned to fly before the war and afterwards owned and piloted several private airplanes, including a P-51 Mustang.
After selling the family trucking business, Harrington joined the Borger ISD as a vocational instructor. He retired from teaching in 1983, and he and Mrs. Harrington relocated to Houston in 1984 to be near their two children’s families.
Claude “Dutch” Harrington was the last survivor of his immediate family. His mother died in 1932; his father, in 1942; and his three elder brothers, Joe L., Frank W. and Merle F. Harrington, died in 1957, 1968 and 2000, respectively.
Harrington’s survivors include his son and daughter-in-law, C. Michael and Josephine Hall Harrington of Sugar Land, and his daughter and son-in-law, Joe Ann and Kenneth P. Kingdon, Jr. of Missouri City. He is also survived by five grandchildren: Ann Christine Dull (and her husband, John William Dull, Jr.) of Houston; Carol Lee Nicosia (and her husband, Patrick V. Nicosia, Jr.) of Houston; Lt. Kenneth M. Kingdon, M.D., U.S.N. (and his wife, Lisa) of San Diego, CA; Averill Harrington Conn (and her husband, David K. Conn) of Houston; and Jane Mackay Harrington of Houston. Four great granddaughters also survive: Carolyn Ann, Kathryn Mae and Constance Lee Dull and Anne Louise Nicosia.
Survivors in the Borger area are sister-in-law Alice L. Harrington and nephews Clyde L. and Robert E. Harrington, all of Borger, and brother-in-law W. Larry Rider of Fritch.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, 11612 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77024, or to the charity of your choice.
(Published in Borger News Herald, July 22, 2008)
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CLAUDE M. HARRINGTON, a retired oilfield trucking contractor, died peacefully at his home in Missouri City on July 21, 2008, aged 92. A memorial service will be conducted on Friday, July 25, at 2 p.m. at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church. Mr. Harrington's local survivors include his son, C. Michael Harrington (and wife Jody) of Sugar Land, and his daughter, Joe Ann Kingdon (and husband Kenneth) of Missouri City, and his four granddaughters, Christy Dull (and husband John), Carol Nicosia (and husband Patrick), Averill Conn (and husband David) and Jane Harrington, all of Houston.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, 11612 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77024, or to the charity of one's choice.
(Published in Houston Chronicle from July 23 to July 25, 2008)
Claude M. “Dutch” Harrington, a resident of the Borger,Texas area from 1926 to 1984 and a City Commissioner during the 1950s, died at his home in Missouri City, Texas, of natural causes on July 21, 2008, aged 92. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m., Friday, at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in Houston,Texas following interment at Forest Park mausoleum in Houston,Texas.
Born April 3, 1916, in Newton, Kansas, Claude Marion was the youngest of the four surviving sons of oilfield teaming contractor John Joseph Lawrence Harrington and his wife, Mary Lena Buss. As a boy, Claude’s brothers nicknamed him “Dutch,” a moniker that stuck with him for life.
The oil boom of the mid-1920s brought the Harrington family to the Borger area, where the senior Harrington established an oilfield trucking business that eventually employed all four of his sons. (After the founder’s death in 1942,his sons renamed the business J.J. Harrington Sons Trucking Company.) Coming to Borger in July 1926 from their home in the Kansas oilfields, the Harringtons shipped their household goods, teaming horses and wagons by rail to Panhandle, and from there they traveled to the new boomtown of Borger by horse and wagon, with young Claude leading the family into town on a Shetland pony. The family soon settled in Phillips where Claude lived until leaving for military service.
With no high school yet in Phillips, Harrington attended Borger High School, where he played on the tennis team and wrote for the school newspaper. After graduation in 1935, he joined his father’s trucking company where he worked, with time out only for military service, until he and his brother, Merle, sold the business in 1968.
With war threatening, Harrington enlisted in the Army Air Corps in September 1941, and he trained as an aerial engineer and topgunner on a B-17. Harrington married his high school classmate, Christine Rider, on November 1, 1941, a marriage that endured until Mrs. Harrington’s death in July 1987.
Appointed sergeant in April 1943, Harrington was honorably discharged from the Army on medical grounds in August 1943, and he returned home to rejoin his brothers in the oilfield trucking business.
After the war, Harrington and his wife bought a home in Borger, where he was active in civic affairs, serving as a City Commissioner during the 1950s and as a member of the Tax Equalization Board and the Hutchinson County Airport Zoning Board. Gateway subdivision was developed during Harrington’s tenure on City Commission, and Harrington Road there was named in his honor. He was a charter member of the Knife and Fork Club and Wesley United Methodist Church. An aviation enthusiast since boyhood, Harrington learned to fly before the war and afterwards owned and piloted several private airplanes, including a P-51 Mustang.
After selling the family trucking business, Harrington joined the Borger ISD as a vocational instructor. He retired from teaching in 1983, and he and Mrs. Harrington relocated to Houston in 1984 to be near their two children’s families.
Claude “Dutch” Harrington was the last survivor of his immediate family. His mother died in 1932; his father, in 1942; and his three elder brothers, Joe L., Frank W. and Merle F. Harrington, died in 1957, 1968 and 2000, respectively.
Harrington’s survivors include his son and daughter-in-law, C. Michael and Josephine Hall Harrington of Sugar Land, and his daughter and son-in-law, Joe Ann and Kenneth P. Kingdon, Jr. of Missouri City. He is also survived by five grandchildren: Ann Christine Dull (and her husband, John William Dull, Jr.) of Houston; Carol Lee Nicosia (and her husband, Patrick V. Nicosia, Jr.) of Houston; Lt. Kenneth M. Kingdon, M.D., U.S.N. (and his wife, Lisa) of San Diego, CA; Averill Harrington Conn (and her husband, David K. Conn) of Houston; and Jane Mackay Harrington of Houston. Four great granddaughters also survive: Carolyn Ann, Kathryn Mae and Constance Lee Dull and Anne Louise Nicosia.
Survivors in the Borger area are sister-in-law Alice L. Harrington and nephews Clyde L. and Robert E. Harrington, all of Borger, and brother-in-law W. Larry Rider of Fritch.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, 11612 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77024, or to the charity of your choice.
(Published in Borger News Herald, July 22, 2008)
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CLAUDE M. HARRINGTON, a retired oilfield trucking contractor, died peacefully at his home in Missouri City on July 21, 2008, aged 92. A memorial service will be conducted on Friday, July 25, at 2 p.m. at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church. Mr. Harrington's local survivors include his son, C. Michael Harrington (and wife Jody) of Sugar Land, and his daughter, Joe Ann Kingdon (and husband Kenneth) of Missouri City, and his four granddaughters, Christy Dull (and husband John), Carol Nicosia (and husband Patrick), Averill Conn (and husband David) and Jane Harrington, all of Houston.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, 11612 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77024, or to the charity of one's choice.
(Published in Houston Chronicle from July 23 to July 25, 2008)
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