Background
Harris was born to Homer H. Harris, Senior (1890–1971), and the former Arletta Cato (1888–1987) at Hard Times Plantation south of Alexandria.
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He graduated from Bolton High School in Alexandria, attended Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville for two years, and graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Career
The family moved to Alexandria in 1921. During World World War II, Harris volunteered in the United States Army Air Corps. He piloted B-29 bombers.
He also served for a decade on the Rapides Parish Aviation Authority, including two years a president
Harris was a director of the Central Cities Development Corporation and a former president of the Rapides Parish Industrial Development Board. He was past president of the Alexandria Lions Club and scored perfect attendance for sixty-three years.
He was active in the Committee for a Better Alexandria and worked on the development of navigation projects on the Red River. He was preceded in death by another brother, Homer Harris, Junior.
(1910–1999). Interment was in Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville.
Harris" brother, James Harris, was also an Louisiana State University graduate and a United States Navy veteran of the North Africa and Pacific theaters of World World War II, with service in the Philippines. James Harris, who retired from Hill-Harris at the age of ninety-two, was also active in the Alexandria community, having been former presidents of both the Kiwanis Club and Kent Plantation House, Incorporated., a restored 19th century structure near Bayou Rapides.
Membership
He was a member of Sigma Chi social fraternity. Harris was a member of the Alexandria-Pineville Chamber of Commerce and chaired its aviation committee.
