Mark Dwayne Harris, 60, passed away Monday, Sept. 27, 2021.
He was born on Nov. 14, 1960, in Lexington, to the late James Franklin Harris (1907-1990) and Nellie Mae Carroll (1919-1979). He was a retiree from the Fayette County Public School Operations Department. In 1980, he married the love of his life – the girl next store, Bonnie Fay Wafford Harris. They enjoyed 40 happy years together. Mark was saved by grace into the Family of God in a small church in Alabama. He loved God and he loved his country.
Survivors include his wife, Bonnie Fay Wafford Harris; daughter, Charity Short (son-in-law Jody L. Short); and son, Mark Lee Harris (daughter-in-law Angela M. Godby Harris); five granddaughters, Mae L. Harris, Annabelle F. Short, Autumn S. Harris, Caroline J. Short and June R. Harris; a grandson, Tucker J. Harris; brother, James Edward Harris; sister, Linda Mae Harris Kincaid; as well as several nieces and nephews. Mark was proceeded in death by his father, James Franklin Harris, and mother, Nellie Mae Carroll; brothers and sisters-in-law, Charles Franklin Harris and Ruth Francis Harris; Jack Conway Harris and Susan Voint; and Thomas Cowan Harris and Lethkephea Darlene Martin; brother, Gary Moore Harris; sister-in-law, Florida Ann Roe Harris; sisters and brothers-in-law; Mary Francis Harris Quillen Beason (Roscoe Quillen) (Lloyd Beason); Wilma Jean Harris Snapp and Clyde A. Snapp; and brother-in-law, Roger Lewis “Buddy” Kincaid Sr.
His funeral service was conducted Wednesday, Oct. 6, by the Reverend Deewayne Walker of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home on Harrodsburg Road, Lexington. Burial followed in Rose Crest Cemetery in Versailles.