(April 22, 1866-October 6, 1936)

The death of Mrs. Louise Hale Harris occurred at her home in Norwood, N.Y., Friday, Oct. 6. Mrs. Harris was a daughter of the late Oscar and Margaret Gage Hale and was born at Valley Farm on the Norfolk-Knapps Station road, April 22, 1866. She attended the Norwood school, a boarding school at East Greenwich, R.I., and was graduated from the Potsdam Normal in 1894.

She taught successfully at Whitestone, L.I., Norwood, Port Chester, and in a private school in Burlington, Vt. In 1909, she married George Harris of Norwood, who died in 1917.

Mrs. Harris was a woman of rare personal charm, alert, active and community minded. Her friends were legion and on her pupils and others with whom she came in contact her influence was always uplifting and helpful She was interested until her death in nature lore and gardening and was a leader of 4-H Club work.

She is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Willis J. Fletcher and Mrs. Frank E. Powell, of Norwood, and Mrs. Earl B. Clark of this place.

(From the Friday, October 16, 1936 edition of the Potsdam Herald-Recorder, page four. Courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network @ news.nnyln.net).

(Mrs. Harris is buried at Riverside Cemetery, Norwood).