Memorial service for Laura Brooks Harris, 81, Lawton, will be 11:00 a.m. Friday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Rev. Tom Willoughby officiating. Mrs. Harris died Saturday, September 1, 2012 in Lawton. Burial will be in the Greenwood Memorial Park in Fort Worth, Texas. Arrangements are under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. Mrs. Harris was born October 26, 1930 in Plainview, Texas, to Hamill and Edna Brooks. She married Reed Harris on August 3, 1954 in Plainview. She was a graduate of Plainview, Texas High School and also graduated from Wayland Baptist University with a degree in English, Drama and Speech. She later did graduate level work in education. She was retired from teaching children with learning disabilities at Dean School in Fort Worth, Texas, and had also worked as a real estate sales associate in Fort Worth, Plainview and Belton, Texas. Laura was very active in church throughout her life at Handley Baptist and University Baptist Churches in Forth Worth, First Baptist Churches in Plainview and Belton and at the time of her death was a member of the First Baptist Church in Lawton. While in Lawton she was active in Entre Nous as well as the Lawton Book and Play Review Club. She loved missions and was very involved with the Women's Missionary Union at every level. She served as WMU director at numerous churches, as the promotional vice president for the Texas WMU, state equipper for associational WMU leadership and as the associational WMU director and conference leader. She and her husband were Mission Service Corps volunteers with Highland Lakes Texas Encampment and she had traveled to Japan, Brazil, Korea and the Bahamas with her husband on numerous international mission trips. Laura was a true partner with her husband, helping in any way with his work with international students at Wayland Baptist University and Mary Hardin Baylor University. They housed several students throughout the years in their home. She loved the Lord, her family, friends and her church. Many remember her quick sense of humor. Even though rheumatoid arthritis slowed her down in her later years, she never let it stop her from staying active. She is survived by her husband, of the home; a daughter, Cindy Harris Aday and Husband Phillip, Lawton; two grandsons, Andrew and Travis Aday; a brother, Merritt Brooks, Seattle, Washington; a nephew, Steven Brooks. Memorial contributions may be made to either the State Missions Offering or to the Lottie Moon Mission Offering through the First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 1409, Lawton OK 73502.