Transcribed by Katherine Ricker
BENJAMIN R. HARRISON
Trenton—Benjamin Raymond Harrison, 82, of Old New Bern Road, died
Nov. 28, 1998 at Craven Regional Medical Center in New Bern. Harrison
was a member of Friendship Free Will Baptist Church in Trenton and the
magistrate for Jones County for 15 years. He was a member of Zion
Masonic Lodge No. 81 in Trenton and the Scottish Rite Bodies of New
Bern. Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church
with the Rev. Don Fader officiating. Internment will follow at the church
cemetery with Masonic rites by Zion Lodge No. 81 Survivors include his
wife, Annie Marie Harrison of Trenton; four sons, William “Billy” Harrison
of Pollocksville, Benjamin Earl Harrison of Tampa, Fla. and Raymond
Douglas Harrison of El Paso, Texas and Ronald Glenn Harrison of Dayton,
Ohio; one brother, Robert Ray Harrison of Trenton; four sisters, Lillian
Heath of Cove City, Mildred Gilbert of Shawboro, Dorothy Smith and Elma
Lee Melville, both of Maysville; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m today at Pollock-Wells & Best
Funeral Home in New Bern, and other times at the home. Memorials may
be made to Friendship Free Will Baptist Church.
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