Mary Anne Harris

MARY ANNE ROBERTS HARRIS OBITUARY Arlington - Mary Anne Roberts Harris, a retired realtor died Tuesday, March 31, 2020 in Arlington, Texas. Funeral: A private, graveside service will be held for immediate family only. Memorial Service: A memorial will be scheduled for a later date, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please visit Mary Anne's Memorial Website for announcement date - https://memorial.wadefamilyfuneralhome.com/Mary-Harris/4147388/index.php. Mary Anne was born November 29, 1929 in Arkansas City, Kansas where she attended the local schools. She went to Oklahoma College for Women for 2 years then received her BA from the University of Oklahoma where she was a member of Alpha Phi Sorority. She did graduate work at SMU on scholarship. She was a speech therapist for the Dallas and Ft. Worth public schools. While teaching in Dallas in 1953, she met her husband, Tom, on a blind date. He was a freshman at Southwestern Medical School at the time. They were married in 1953. She followed her husband to Tacoma, Washington & Anchorage, Alaska while he was serving in the Army Medical Corps as a doctor. In 1960, they settled in Ft. Worth where Tom was an anesthesiologist and Mary Anne was busy carpooling their 3 children to Trinity Valley & Ft. Worth Country Day Schools. They moved to Arlington in 1969. She was a travel agent from 1976 to 1979 then became a realtor with Ebby Halliday Real Estate. After Tom retired, they began traveling the world. They took their grandsons, Mitchell and Tony Harris, to all 50 state capitals and the U.S. capital. They also traveled to Europe and other foreign countries with them as they did with their other grandchildren. Her grandchildren were her pride and joy. She was a lifelong Methodist. She was preceded in death by her beloved parents, Walter Albert Roberts and Mary Jane Hitchcock Roberts & her beloved husband, Thomas W. Harris, M.D and beloved son, Gregory Warren Harris. Survivors: Son, Jeffrey R. Harris, M.D. and wife, Judy Wasserheit, M.D. of Seattle, daughter-in-law, Danielle Chatillon of Las Vegas, daughter, Kathryn Anne Yoakum and husband, Danny, of Austin; grandsons, Mitchell Harris (Geoffrey Whitten), Tony Harris (Samantha), Matthew Faxon and Asher Harris and granddaughter, Chelsea Faxon (David Reeves); great granddaughter, Violet Harris; sister, Carol Sue Roberts Callahan of Conroe, TX; and brother-in-law, Kimble Harris & wife, Ann of Henderson, TX; 5 nieces and 2 nephews. In lieu of flowers, the family request that donations be made to Mission Arlington. Wade Family Funeral Home 817-274-9233