Services for Johnie L. Harris Sr., of Monticello, were Saturday,Nov. 5 at Friendship Baptist Church in Monticello with burial inthe church cemetery. Johnson Funeral Home was in charge ofarrangements.

Mr. Harris, 82, died Oct. 29, 2005, at the G.V. “Sonny”Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He was born on July 13,1923, to Carsie Henry and Beulah Tyrone Harris.

He was retired from Jacobsen Textron and as a self-employedcarpenter. He was a member of Friendship Baptist Church and servedas a deacon, trustee and superintendent of Sunday school.

Preceding him in death were his parents; one son; two brothers;and 11 sisters.

Survivors are his wife, Clotiel, of Monticello; two daughters,Dortha Lipscomb and Johnnie Mae Woodard, of Monticello; five sons,Douglas and Robert Harris, of Monticello, Johnie Lee Harris Jr., ofBranchville, S.C., Monroe Harris, of Chicago, and Thomas Harris, ofMaywood, Ill.; three sisters; 17 grandchildren; and 18great-grandchildren.