The funeral service will be conducted at 12:00 noon, Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at Jehovah Baptist Church, 201 West Chatham Street, Oglethorpe, Georgia. Burial will follow at Oglethorpe City Cemetery, Memorial Drive, Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Bennie was born on December 11, 1943 to the parentage of the late Annie Laura Dean King and James King in Oglethorpe, Georgia. She was educated in the public school system in Macon County. Bennie was a faithful member of Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church. She was employed as a grader at Southern Frozen Foods. She was united in holy matrimony to H. T. Harris, Jr. She truly enjoyed singing all around the community.
She leaves to cherish her memories: a husband, H. T. Harris, Jr., Americus, Georgia; two children, Torris Harris, Oglethorpe, Georgia and Alicia Harris (Percy Redmond, Jr.), Americus, Georgia; three grandchildren, Maya Dunn, Oglethorpe, Georgia, Marcus Dunn, Jr. (Tiffany Baldwin), Perry, Georgia, and Michael Dunn, Oglethorpe, Georgia; one great granddaughter, Marlee Dunn, Perry, Georgia; two siblings, Ann King and Charles Robert King both of Oglethorpe, Georgia; aunts and uncle, Beatrice Dent, Washington D.C., Ulysses Dean (Brenda), Andersonville, Georgia, Velma Harris, Americus, Georgia, and Helen Schofield, Jacksonville, Florida, and Grace Taylor, Baltimore, Maryland; a host of caring nieces, nephews other relatives and many sorrowing friends.