Printed in the Times Post, Houston, Mississippi dated May 7 1953
West Point's Editor Dies
Funeral services for Edgar G Harris, one of the South's most esteemed editors and publishers, who died Thursday afternoon at his home after an extended illness, were conducted at 3 Friday afternoon from the First Baptist Church.
Rev. Clifton Perkins, pastor, officiated and burial was in Greenwood Cemetery under direction of Barry Funeral Home.
Music at the services was rendered by Mrs. Alma Shaw at the piano and a quartet—Mrs. E P Burrous, Jack Cottrell, Mrs. Sara Smith and Olen Byars. The quartet sang, "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," and "God Be With You ‘til We Meet Again."
Mr. Harris, editor-publisher of the Daily Times Leader and founder of two other leading Mississippi dailies, was 70.
His daily front page column, "The March of Events," was quoted widely. Even though Mr. Harris had been in ill health several years, he continued to write his column of comment and the editorial page until February.
Born on a Montgomery County farm near Huntsville, Miss., the fearless editor left home at 16—with the blessings of his parents—to further his education and start a newspaper career which spanned 61 years.
His first newspaper job came on the Stewart, Miss., Enterprise, then a leading weekly. That was in 1882.
Mr. Harris was editing a newspaper at 19, an age when most boys are still in school.
Always a builder and community booster, "Editor Harris' " amazing career took him through jobs on Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado and Texas newspapers, but he loved his native state—was one of its finest cities, Hattiesburg, Laurel and West Point.
Told of the beloved editor's death, Gov. Hugh White said "Mississippi has lost one of its finest citizens."
Mr. Harris and his family came to West Point in 1928, when he bought two weeklies, the Leader and Times Herald, and consolidated them into a semi-weekly. He soon converted the newspaper to a daily, although West Point was not of daily newspaper size at that time. For many years, the Times-Leader was published in the smallest city in the world taking the full leased state wire service of the Associated Press.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Beulah Harris; one daughter, Mrs. Charles Elkins, of Wilson, Ark.; and three sons, William Henry Harris of West Point, Sidney R Harris of Houston, Miss., and Dr. James Luther Fuller of Louisville, Ky. He also leaves a brother, Elmer, who resides in Oklahoma.
Out of respect of its founder, the Times Leader did not issue a paper Friday afternoon, and all West Point stores closed for one hour during funeral services.
Pallbearers were C L Jobe, Jimmy Miskelley, Bill Sorrels, Tom Wyman, H N Clark, Raymond Millard, Sr., Tom Tubb and Ben Hilbun.
West Point's Editor Dies
Funeral services for Edgar G Harris, one of the South's most esteemed editors and publishers, who died Thursday afternoon at his home after an extended illness, were conducted at 3 Friday afternoon from the First Baptist Church.
Rev. Clifton Perkins, pastor, officiated and burial was in Greenwood Cemetery under direction of Barry Funeral Home.
Music at the services was rendered by Mrs. Alma Shaw at the piano and a quartet—Mrs. E P Burrous, Jack Cottrell, Mrs. Sara Smith and Olen Byars. The quartet sang, "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," and "God Be With You ‘til We Meet Again."
Mr. Harris, editor-publisher of the Daily Times Leader and founder of two other leading Mississippi dailies, was 70.
His daily front page column, "The March of Events," was quoted widely. Even though Mr. Harris had been in ill health several years, he continued to write his column of comment and the editorial page until February.
Born on a Montgomery County farm near Huntsville, Miss., the fearless editor left home at 16—with the blessings of his parents—to further his education and start a newspaper career which spanned 61 years.
His first newspaper job came on the Stewart, Miss., Enterprise, then a leading weekly. That was in 1882.
Mr. Harris was editing a newspaper at 19, an age when most boys are still in school.
Always a builder and community booster, "Editor Harris' " amazing career took him through jobs on Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado and Texas newspapers, but he loved his native state—was one of its finest cities, Hattiesburg, Laurel and West Point.
Told of the beloved editor's death, Gov. Hugh White said "Mississippi has lost one of its finest citizens."
Mr. Harris and his family came to West Point in 1928, when he bought two weeklies, the Leader and Times Herald, and consolidated them into a semi-weekly. He soon converted the newspaper to a daily, although West Point was not of daily newspaper size at that time. For many years, the Times-Leader was published in the smallest city in the world taking the full leased state wire service of the Associated Press.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Beulah Harris; one daughter, Mrs. Charles Elkins, of Wilson, Ark.; and three sons, William Henry Harris of West Point, Sidney R Harris of Houston, Miss., and Dr. James Luther Fuller of Louisville, Ky. He also leaves a brother, Elmer, who resides in Oklahoma.
Out of respect of its founder, the Times Leader did not issue a paper Friday afternoon, and all West Point stores closed for one hour during funeral services.
Pallbearers were C L Jobe, Jimmy Miskelley, Bill Sorrels, Tom Wyman, H N Clark, Raymond Millard, Sr., Tom Tubb and Ben Hilbun.
Printed in the Times Post, Houston, Mississippi dated May 7 1953
West Point's Editor Dies
Funeral services for Edgar G Harris, one of the South's most esteemed editors and publishers, who died Thursday afternoon at his home after an extended illness, were conducted at 3 Friday afternoon from the First Baptist Church.
Rev. Clifton Perkins, pastor, officiated and burial was in Greenwood Cemetery under direction of Barry Funeral Home.
Music at the services was rendered by Mrs. Alma Shaw at the piano and a quartet—Mrs. E P Burrous, Jack Cottrell, Mrs. Sara Smith and Olen Byars. The quartet sang, "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," and "God Be With You ‘til We Meet Again."
Mr. Harris, editor-publisher of the Daily Times Leader and founder of two other leading Mississippi dailies, was 70.
His daily front page column, "The March of Events," was quoted widely. Even though Mr. Harris had been in ill health several years, he continued to write his column of comment and the editorial page until February.
Born on a Montgomery County farm near Huntsville, Miss., the fearless editor left home at 16—with the blessings of his parents—to further his education and start a newspaper career which spanned 61 years.
His first newspaper job came on the Stewart, Miss., Enterprise, then a leading weekly. That was in 1882.
Mr. Harris was editing a newspaper at 19, an age when most boys are still in school.
Always a builder and community booster, "Editor Harris' " amazing career took him through jobs on Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado and Texas newspapers, but he loved his native state—was one of its finest cities, Hattiesburg, Laurel and West Point.
Told of the beloved editor's death, Gov. Hugh White said "Mississippi has lost one of its finest citizens."
Mr. Harris and his family came to West Point in 1928, when he bought two weeklies, the Leader and Times Herald, and consolidated them into a semi-weekly. He soon converted the newspaper to a daily, although West Point was not of daily newspaper size at that time. For many years, the Times-Leader was published in the smallest city in the world taking the full leased state wire service of the Associated Press.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Beulah Harris; one daughter, Mrs. Charles Elkins, of Wilson, Ark.; and three sons, William Henry Harris of West Point, Sidney R Harris of Houston, Miss., and Dr. James Luther Fuller of Louisville, Ky. He also leaves a brother, Elmer, who resides in Oklahoma.
Out of respect of its founder, the Times Leader did not issue a paper Friday afternoon, and all West Point stores closed for one hour during funeral services.
Pallbearers were C L Jobe, Jimmy Miskelley, Bill Sorrels, Tom Wyman, H N Clark, Raymond Millard, Sr., Tom Tubb and Ben Hilbun.
West Point's Editor Dies
Funeral services for Edgar G Harris, one of the South's most esteemed editors and publishers, who died Thursday afternoon at his home after an extended illness, were conducted at 3 Friday afternoon from the First Baptist Church.
Rev. Clifton Perkins, pastor, officiated and burial was in Greenwood Cemetery under direction of Barry Funeral Home.
Music at the services was rendered by Mrs. Alma Shaw at the piano and a quartet—Mrs. E P Burrous, Jack Cottrell, Mrs. Sara Smith and Olen Byars. The quartet sang, "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," and "God Be With You ‘til We Meet Again."
Mr. Harris, editor-publisher of the Daily Times Leader and founder of two other leading Mississippi dailies, was 70.
His daily front page column, "The March of Events," was quoted widely. Even though Mr. Harris had been in ill health several years, he continued to write his column of comment and the editorial page until February.
Born on a Montgomery County farm near Huntsville, Miss., the fearless editor left home at 16—with the blessings of his parents—to further his education and start a newspaper career which spanned 61 years.
His first newspaper job came on the Stewart, Miss., Enterprise, then a leading weekly. That was in 1882.
Mr. Harris was editing a newspaper at 19, an age when most boys are still in school.
Always a builder and community booster, "Editor Harris' " amazing career took him through jobs on Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado and Texas newspapers, but he loved his native state—was one of its finest cities, Hattiesburg, Laurel and West Point.
Told of the beloved editor's death, Gov. Hugh White said "Mississippi has lost one of its finest citizens."
Mr. Harris and his family came to West Point in 1928, when he bought two weeklies, the Leader and Times Herald, and consolidated them into a semi-weekly. He soon converted the newspaper to a daily, although West Point was not of daily newspaper size at that time. For many years, the Times-Leader was published in the smallest city in the world taking the full leased state wire service of the Associated Press.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Beulah Harris; one daughter, Mrs. Charles Elkins, of Wilson, Ark.; and three sons, William Henry Harris of West Point, Sidney R Harris of Houston, Miss., and Dr. James Luther Fuller of Louisville, Ky. He also leaves a brother, Elmer, who resides in Oklahoma.
Out of respect of its founder, the Times Leader did not issue a paper Friday afternoon, and all West Point stores closed for one hour during funeral services.
Pallbearers were C L Jobe, Jimmy Miskelley, Bill Sorrels, Tom Wyman, H N Clark, Raymond Millard, Sr., Tom Tubb and Ben Hilbun.
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