Ethel Mae Harrison, a resident of Okemah, Oklahoma, was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, on January 24, 1933, and departed this life in Tulsa, on Friday, October 11, 2024, at the age of 91 years.
Ethel was the daughter of Roy Grammer and Adeline Simek, Ethel worked at HowardJohnson’sontheturnpikeandtheIGAGrocery Store in Stroud. She retired as a homemaker and was a member of the Deer Creek Baptist Church in Stroud all her life. Ethel later moved her membership to First Baptist Church of Okemah, OK. Ethel married Donald Edward Harrison in Okemah on March 18, 1950.
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, one brother and two sisters. She was survived by her brother (Jimmy Simek); sister (Linda Stephens); three sons, Richard Harrison and wife Mary of Richfield, MN, Timothy Harrison of Highlands, NC, Russell Harrison and wife Rebecca of Tulsa, OK; two daughters, Kathy Clark of Richfield, MN Janie Beck and husband Jimmy of Lampe, MO; her grandchildren, Mariel, Rachel, Connie, Shauna, Christina, Wesley, Angela, Pamela, Blake, Austen, Kalynn, Isabelle, and Abigale; 16 great-grandchildren; seven great-great grandchildren; and other relatives and friends.
Funeral services for Ethel were held on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, at Deer Creek Baptist Church in Stroud. Interment was in Morse Cemetery in Okemah, Oklahoma. Condolences can be expressed at www. parksbrothers.net. Services are in the care of Parks Brothers Funeral Service, Stroud, Oklahoma.