(September 6, 1931-September 25, 2004)

COLTON--A memorial Mass for Shirley Harris, 73, Ormond Beach, Fla., a summer resident of Colton, will be at 10 a.m. Oct. 9 at St. Mary’s Church, Potsdam, with the Rev. Gary Giroux, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Potsdam.

Mrs. Harris died Saturday at Avante Nursing Home, Ormond Beach, where she was under the care of Hospice.

There will be no calling hours. Arrangements are with Buck Funeral Home, Colton.

Mrs. Harris was acting Potsdam village justice, then Potsdam town justice from 1977 to 1983.

She was a senior stenographer at Potsdam State University College before moving to Albany in 1983 to work at Albany State University, retiring in 1987. She resided in Potsdam from 1952 to 1983, lived in Albany for five years and then moved to Florida in 1988 and spent summers in Colton.

She was a member of Prince of Peace Catholic Church, Ormond Beach, and St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Colton.

Born Sept. 6, 1931, in Parish, daughter of Kenneth T. and Mildred Deugaw McDonald, she graduated from Norwood High School in 1949 and attended Central City Business Institute in Syracuse.

She married William E. Harris on June 27, 1953, at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church, Norwood, with the Rev. Francis Maguire officiating.

Surviving besides her husband are two sons, Scott W., Cicero, and Todd G., Colton; a brother, Kenneth G. McDonald, Alexandria Bay; a sister, Joyce Ulrich, Holly Hill, Fla., and four grandchildren.

Donations may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, Nashville, Tenn.; Colton Rescue Squad, Hospice of Volusia-Flagler County or the American Cancer Society.

(From the Tuesday, September 28, 2004 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, page D7).