Anna Margaret Hodge Harris

ORANGEBURG –Anna Margaret Hodge Harris, formerly of Greenville and Chapin, 90, widow of the late Mallon Perdieu Harris Jr., died Thursday, July 8, 2010, at The Methodist Oaks in Orangeburg.

Born Nov. 19, 1919, in Alcolu, she was the daughter of the late Albert Cunningham and Nannie Witherspoon Hodge. A graduate of Draughtons Business College in Columbia, she was a retired legal secretary for the State Legislature and Greenville County Purchasing and Personnel for 17 years, retiring in 1982. She was a member of the National Legal Secretary’s Association; a member and past president of the SC Legal Secretary’s Association; a member and past president of the Greenville Legal Secretary’s Association; a life member of the Columbia Legal Secretary’s Association; an honorary member of the Orangeburg League of Professional Secretaries; a member of the Eastern Star, Columbia Chapter; formerly a member of the Eastern Star at Chapin; and a member of Chapin United Methodist Church in Chapin.

Surviving are a daughter, Anna Marilyn Harris Turney of Chapin; a son, Mallon Philip Harris of Dunwoody, Ga; a sister, Arena Holladay (Bill) Perry of Manning; two grandsons, Kenneth Andrew Turney and David Earl Turney; and two great-grandsons, Blake Andrew Turney and Chandler Andrew Turney.

She was predeceased by her husband; three brothers, J. G. Hodge and wife Martha Ann, Clifton Hodge and wife Ruby, and David Hodge and wife Emma; two sisters, Mary Hodge Pilchard and husband Allen, and Frances Hodge Gause.

Funeral services were held on Saturday, July 10, 2010, in the chapel of Stephens Funeral Home in Manning, with the Rev. Jodie Flowers and the Rev. Carol Holladay officiating.

Burial followed in Trinity United Methodist Church Cemetery in Alcolu.

Pallbearers were nephews and grandsons.

Memorials may be made to Chapin United Methodist Church Permanent Endowment Fund.

Stephens Funeral Home and Crematory on Manning was in charge of the arrangements.