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Services For Doctor Harrison HeldinBatesvilleFuneral services were held at tile Methodist Church at Batesville Monday afternoon at | 5:00 o'clock for Dr. D. A. Harrison who was killed in an automobile accident Friday night. Services were under the leader-• ship of Rev. W. B. Sherman, | j pastor of the Batesville and Laj Pryor churches, assisted by i Rev. Dick Scott, pastor of the ] Batesville Baptist Church, Burial was in the Woodlawn Cemetery at Batesville where deceased father, Dr. D. A. Harrison, Sr. was buried in 1938.The 52-year-old physician ; practiced at Batesville and La Pryor and was on the staff of ; Uvalde Memmorial Hospital. It ; is understood he had gone to ] Eagle Pass on Friday evening . for medical supplies. Driving , his 1955 Oldsmobiie, Dr. Harri- ( son was alone at the time of the accident which occurred at , 11:35 p.m . July 29, two and , a half miles east of Eagle Pass I on Highway 76 The car report-i edly turned over several times. No other car was involved.f Early reports of the accident* said that Dr. Harrison carried with him a quantity of SalkI polio vaccine for use in La Pryor and Batesville. Salk polio , shots were completed in those it two commun.ties before the end ; of school, and although Dr. j Harrison helped in the giving 9! j the shots, he did not have any , vaccine with him at the time of | the accident.Daniel Alien Harrison, Jr. was born January 28. 1903, at Dallas. Texas. A few years tnereafter the family moved to Batesville, where his father was a well known practicing physician for many years D A. Jr. attended public schools at Batesville and San-deson, the Univers.ty of Texas, U.T. Medical School at Galveston and had numerous postgraduate courses. He was the recipient of many honor accom-1 piishments in the field of medi- j cine Hv interned at Cleveland! City Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. \ After tms he practiced medicine continuously, part of the time in the Rio Grande Valley. After aviug the Service he pf a«hced in this area, coming | :o Batesville in August 1954,. :ng there and at La Pry-j j or He united with the Meth-t odist church when a lad of nine years.He is survived by hu motner, Mrs D A Harrison, Sr, of La ,! Pryor, a son, Dan A Harrison J.n the Service in Alaska, three listers, Mrs. Jnc W Whitten, Waco, Texas; Mrs. R. T. Moore,II Harlingen, Texas, Mrs W D.. I Johnston, Corpus Chnsti, all of| A hom were present at the fu-. neral services. *f Other surviving relatives, ' i most of whom were present for f the funeral are: Jno. W. Whit-i tier, Waco; R. T Moore and i -on, Room, Harlingen, W D.' Johnston and daugnter, Jerry ' Sue, CorpusChr:sti,Mr and Mrs ' j Bert Smith, San Diego, Calif.; 1 , Mr and Mrs. J T Peace and H | children. Tommy and Mary : , Jane, Hurricane, Utah; Mr. and 1 i Mrs Hugh Peace and son, Hugh'1 Jr., San Antonio; Rev and Mrs ,,J Wm. Mason. Beeville; Mr .md Mrs. H T Peace and MissFiOtvnce Peace. La Pryor. Mr 1 I and Mrs. B E Leiaoner and 1 daughter, Terry, Mr and Mrs. 1 Rogers Peace, and daughter,, Linda, San Anton.o; Mr and 1 t Mrs. John Maddux, Mr and Mrs Robert Bragg and daugh-i itr, Francis Lee, and Mr and -Mrs Aron Nelson, Batesvlle. iActive pallbearers: Dr L. E. ' Guice, Earl Spring, Bernard r ’ Brown. A I Shearer, R K lt;Miller^gnd Malcolm Keiier
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Crystal City Zavala County Sentinel
Crystal City, Texas, US
Fri, Aug 05, 1955
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