Barbara Kathreen Johnston Harrison

BARBARA JOHNSTON HARRISON Who died on August 19, 2011 at Ingleside at Rock Creek retirement community in Washington, DC, was the author of Three Brothers Johnston (2003), a history of the immigration of her father's Scots-Irish forbears from County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, to Rock Island, Illinois; and of Learning About IndieducIndia. Barbara was born September 5, 1922, in Kankakee, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Illinois in 1944 and did graduate work in political science at the University of Minnesota. In 1948-49 she worked with the United Auto Workers in Detroit, Michigan, and there met her future husband, Selig S. Harrison. She also worked in 1949- 50 in Washington as a research specialist for the Senate Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations under Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota. When Selig was working for the Associated Press in New Delhi, India, Barbara joined him and they were married in Delhi on October 10, 1951. They lived for six years in India and four years in Japan between 1951 and 1973 when her husband was New Delhi and Tokyo bureau chief for the Washington Post. Her son Coleman was born in Delhi in 1953 and her daughter Kathreen in Washington in 1960. After returning to the United States, Barbara lived in Scarsdale, New York; Manhattan; and Chevy Chase, MD. She spent summers on a beloved island in Maine, Little Cranberry Island. She was a deeply intelligent woman who read widely, valued her friends and family, and never lost her dignity despite the Parkinson's disease that afflicted her last years. She is survived by her husband, Selig S. Harrison, of Washington; her son, Coleman, of Boston, Massachusetts; her daughter, Kathreen, of Thomaston, Maine; four grandchildren, Fiona and Gavin of Thomaston; Kathreen "Katie" of New Haven, Connecticut; Gabriela Richard, of New York; and by her brother, Richard Johnston of San Francisco. Her cremated remains will be buried according to her wishes at Sand Beach Cemetery, Little Cranberry Island, Maine. A celebration of her life will be held at Ingleside at Rock Creek, 3050 Military Rd., NW, on Monday, October 10 at 3 p.m. Her cremated remains will be buried according to her wishes at Sand Beach Cemetery, Little Cranberry Island, Maine. A celebration of her life will be held at Ingleside at Rock Creek, 3050 Military Rd., NW, on Monday, October 10 at 3 p.m.

Arrangements under the direction of Joseph Gawler's Sons Inc., Washington, DC.