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Submitted: 8/22/08 • Approved: 7/1/21 • Last Updated: 7/4/21 • R46475-G0-S3
25 November 1900 - Jul 1982
Marriage:
1) Mildred Mae (Emerson) Harper ca 1921 Franklin Parrish, Louisiana
2) Olive Lucretia "Lou" (Flowers) Allen Harper 12 Jun 1943 Tate County Mississippi*
William Otis Harper son of Otis Hines Harper Jr. and Onie Evelyn (May) Harper.
**obituary
Olive Lucretia Harper, 85
RAVENDEN -- Olive Lucretia Harper, 85, of Ravenden died Thursday, April 10, at Walnut Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Born in Louisiana, she was a homemaker and a Jehovah's Witness.
Survivors include one son, Coleman Lawrence Allen of Ravenden; one sister, Beatrice Anderson of Crowville, Ind.; one brother, Clarence V. Flowers of Bastrop, La.; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, William Otis Harper; her parents, Orvid and Florence Dunham Flowers; two brothers; and one sister.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Opposition Cemetery in Ravenden.
Arrangements are under the direction of Higginbotham Funeral Service in Walnut Ridge.
Visitation will be from 4-6 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
Obituary located through archives of The Jonesboro Sun, Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas. Published Friday, April 11, 2003
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Jonesboro Sun, The (Arkansas) 11 April 2003, obit for Harper, GenealogyBank.com (https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/obituaries/obit/1394A7D8880AF5C0
*Mississippi, Tate County Marriages, 1858-1979
Name Mr William Otis Harper
Sex Male
Age 42
Birth Year (Estimated) 1901
Race White
Father's Name Otis H Harper
Father's Sex Male
Spouse's Name Miss Olive Lucretia Flowers
Spouse's Sex F
Spouse's Age 25
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated) 1918
Spouse's Race White
Spouse's Father's Name Ovid E Flowers
Spouse's Father's Sex Male
Marriage Date 12 Jun 1943
Marriage Place Tate, Mississippi, United States
Marriage Place (Original) Tate, Mississippi
William Otis Harper Father Otis H Harper
Miss Olive Lucretia Flowers Spouse 25
Source
"Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZN4Z-M96Z : 25 May 2020), Mr William Otis Harper, 12 Jun 1943; citing Marriage, Tate, Mississippi, United States, 00854, citing multiple county clerks; Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson.
Contributed on 8/22/08 by denise.bratcher63
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