Pamela Joan Harrison

Pamela Joan (Louch) Harrison was born November 18th, 1924 on the Isle of Wight, UK, to Ethyl Rose Staniford Louch and Albert Edward Louch, a bus mechanic, who later moved their small family to Reading, England, to be closer to Ethyl’s parents. Pam began to do secretarial and clerical work after successfully graduating from secondary school in 1940. Four years later she met LT. Eugene H. Harrison of the Royal Norfolk Regiment. By that time, as part of England’s war effort, she has had returned to Newport on the Isle of Wight to work for a group of test pilots. Pam and Gene were married on April 6th, 1944, exactly two months before Gene joined the D-Day invasion of France.

After fighting across Europe and receiving a field promotion, in 1946, Gene returned as Captain Harrison. Pam, now working in London where she has managed, despite a severe housing crisis, to rent a flat in a bombed- out area of Clapham. And where, since her marriage, Pam had been working and spending many nights sleeping in the subway during German bombing raids. The couple had two children, Francesca and Antony. In 1951 they determined to seek their fortunes in the U.S. and emigrated to Minneapolis, MN, where Gene had a Half- sister who had married a G.I. Within a few years, the family was prospering, with Gene working as British Vice Consul Commercial for the foreign service, and pam doing clerical and secretarial work for a private television and electronics institute. She continued to work there until the mid-1970s, when she and Gene established their own successful wholesale giftware company, which they closed down in 1993 and, following their dreams, retired to Vanderbilt Beach, Florida, a paradise they had first visited in the early 1960’s. they lived there happily until 2001, when Pam was devastated by Gene’s Death after heart surgery in 2001. She continued to live there independently, serving for many years as a member of the Board of her condo association, until 2021 when her health was compromised by a fall. In 2022 she moved to the Artis Senior Living Community near her daughter and extended family in Woodbury, MN.

Pam is survived by her children, her grandchildren; Monica Sanders, Amanda Ressler and Penn Harrison, Six Great grandchildren, and eight great- great- grandchildren.

A private memorial service will be held.

If desired, donations can be made to:

Alzheimer's Association: https://act.alz.org/site/Donation2?df_id=51079&51079.donation=form1&mfc_pref=T&utm_source=google&utm_medium=paidsearch&utm_campaign=giving_google&s_subsrc=giving_google&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwMiv4vG9hwMV6w-tBh2hPwP-EAAYASAAEgI5SfD_BwE

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American Heart Association: https://www.heart.org/en/get-involved/ways-to-give-aha?form=FUNELYZXFBW&s_src=25A511AEMG&s_subsrc=fy25_jul_sem_google_text_&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=dr+fy25+sitelink&utm_source=sem+google&utm_content=prospecting-remarketing+sem+sem_sitelink&utm_term=text&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIoeGn-fG9hwMVwAqtBh2BSQdFEAAYASACEgJgrvD_BwE