September 26, 2022
Funeral services for Lee Oma Harris, 90, of Smithville, TN, will be Wednesday, September 28 at 1 PM at the Baxter Chapel of Hooper Huddleston Horner Funeral Home. Interment will follow in the Smellage Memory Gardens in the Boma Community of Putnam County. Bro. John Pippin will officiate. The family will receive friends Wednesday from 11 AM until service time at the funeral home..
Mrs. Harris died Sunday morning, September 25, 2022 at the home of her daughter in Clarksville, TN.
She was born December 24, 1931 in Silver Point to the late Bailey Owen and Ethel Avo Shanks Carr.
Lee Oma was a homemaker and enjoyed gardening, working in her flowers. She also liked listening to TALK Radio, painting oil portraits and watching the hummingbirds. She also went to Smithville Senior Citizens.
She was a graduate of Baxter Seminary and attended Draughons Business College.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a son, Marlon “Marty” Dale Harris, sister Regina Olivo, brothers Owen D., Darrell., David and Arvin Carr.
Survivors include husband of 66 years (Married December 23, 1955) Billy Everett Harris of Smithville, daughter and son-in-law Jill and James Somerville of Clarksville, grandson Sean Everett Somerville, sister and brother-in-law Tommie and Jim Driver of Bowling Green, Ky, several nieces and nephews.
Baxter Chapel of Hooper Huddleston Horner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements