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Sam Howard Harrison
contributed by The Hugo Daily News

    Funeral services for Sam Howard Harrison of Hugo will be held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, December 23, 2004, at Jackson Street Church of Christ in Hugo, with Brother Donnie Bates officiating. Interment will follow in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
    Mr. Harrison died Tuesday, December 21, 2004, in Durant. He was 89.
    Sam Howard Harrison was born on October 29, 1915 in Ravenna, Texas, to Ollie W. and Ethel B. (Brock) Harrison. He married Vivian Dawn on January 1, 1935 in Hugo. Howard moved to Hugo from Parkers Grove, Texas, 70 years ago. Howard was a member of the Jackson Street Church of Christ and the Hugo Historical Society. He was a locomotive engineer. People knew him as the Train Man. Howard will truly be missed by all who knew and loved him.
    He was preceded in death by his wife Vivian.
    He is survived by one son, Toby Harrison and wife Linda of Calera, Okla.; one sister, Hazel Newman of Broken Arrow, Okla.; five grandchildren, Tod Harrison and wife Lori, Jody Harrison and wife Rhonda, Tony Harrison, Shelly Lewis and husband Wallace, Russ Harrison and wife Cheryl; eight great grandchildren, Cody Harrison, Tonnie Harrison, Grady Harrison, Tobi Harrison, Riley Harrison, Brady Harrison, Dillon Sheffield and Gavin Harrison.
    The family will receive friends Wednesday, December 22, 2004, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the funeral home chapel.
    Prater-Lampton-Mills & Coffey Funeral Home.
    Paid announcement.