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Betty J. Harris (formerly Betty Stasey) passed peacefully in her home on March 10, 2004, surrounded by family, friends, and compassionate spirits. She was born in Wadsworth, OH, in 1921. She and her family moved to Albuquerque in 1938. Betty graduated from Albuquerque High in 1940. She married Clyde Curry Stasey in 1941 and during WWII, while "Stasey" served in the Navy first in Europe and then in the South Pacific, she worked welding Liberty Ships in San Francisco harbor. They had 2 children: Linda Stasey McArthur, of Silver City, NM, and Bobbie Stasey, of Albuquerque. Clyde, a housing contractor after the War, died suddenly in 1959 in Odessa, TX. Betty graduated with a B.S. in Home Economics Education from Texas State Teachers College in 1971 and returned soon after to Albuquerque. Betty was the first Noise Control Inspector for the City of Albuquerque, and later worked for the City Environmental Health Department. During these years Betty pursued with great enthusiasm a search for true spirituality, first with The First Church of Religious Science, where she sang in their choir. Her spirit path led her to The Wisdom Fellowship, where she found a true understanding of her relationship with God and the universe, and a wonderful man named Peter S. Harris, whom she married in 1987. Betty remained a prominent teacher in the Wisdom Fellowship until her transition. Her grace and beauty will be missed. Betty's family include her daughter, Linda and husband Thomas McArthur, grandson Gregory and wife Valerie McArthur, great grandchildren Kendall Jamie and Jacob Thomas McArthur of Silver City; her daughter Bobbie Stasey and partner Ed Dziczek of Albuquerque, grandson Stasey and wife Mary Mitchell, great grandchildren Merrit Elizabeth and Erin Rose Mitchell of Wimberly, TX, and her sister Geraldine Lois Hughes of Albuquerque. Close friends include Goldialu Stone and Mike Landrigan of Albuquerque, and her 18 year-old bow-legged tabby cat "Slim." At her transition, Betty was met by her late husbands Clyde Curry Stasey and Peter Harris, great grandchildren Jamie Lynn McArthur and Jim E. Mitchell, and dear friend and minister Rev. Jane Reed. A Memorial Service and Celebration of the Life of Betty J. Harris will be held next Saturday morning, March 20, 2004, 10:00 am at 7116 Quail Springs Place NE, Albuquerque. Call 797-5597. Out of her love of animals, Betty asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made in her memory to either a local animal shelter or to the animal sanctuary Best Friends, 5001 Angel Canyon Rd, Kanab, UT 84741 (1-435-644-2001) "I shall live beyond death, and I shall sing in your ears Even after the vast sea-wave carries me back To the vast sea-depth. I shall sit at your board though without a body, And I shall go with you to your fields, a spirit invisible. I shall come to you at your fireside, a guest unseen. Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces. The woodsman shall be still a woodsman, The ploughman, a ploughman, And he who sang his song to the wind Shall sing it also to the moving spheres." The Garden of The Prophet Kahlil Gibran Arrangements by Direct Funeral Services, 2919 4th ST. NW. ABQ. 505-343-8008
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