Gloria “Tita” Harmon, age 74, of
Fairfield Township died early Sunday morning, March 27, 2005 at the South
Jersey Regional Medical Center in Vineland. She had been a patient there for
five days and had been in declining health for the past five months.
Born in Philadelphia, she was the
daughter of the late Warren and Sarah Mosley Harmon.
Ms. Harmon was a graduate of Overbrook
High School in Philadelphia and after her graduation was employed by St.
Thomas Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. She later worked for the
Philadelphia National Bank in the Foreign Exchange Department where she
remained until her retirement in 1990.
She was a member of the Nanticoke
Lenni-Lenape Indians of New Jersey and the Nanticoke Indians of Millsboro,
Delaware. She loved to walk, write poetry and window shop. She was an
admirer of her Native American People and their heritage. She felt blessed
to have been able to live with her sister, Shirley Carney, her husband Jack
and their children. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends.
Survivors include three brothers, Warren
“Nippy” Harmon, Jr. of Bridgeton, Michael Harmon, Sr. of Broomall, PA and
Jay Harmon, Sr. of Washington Township and one sister, Lena Jackson of
Drexel Hill, PA. She was predeceased by two sisters, Lorraine DiMaio and
Shirley Carney.
Funeral services will be held at the
Padgett Funeral Home, 1107 State Highway # 77, Upper Deerfield Township on
Friday at 11 a.m.
Burial will be made at Fernwood Memorial
Park in Hopewell Township.
Friends may call on Friday morning from
10 to 11 a.m. prior to the services at the funeral home.
