Ann Turowitz Harris

Annie was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928 to her parents Elizabeth (Lizzy) and John Stephen Turowitz. She enjoyed swimming, playing handball in the park with her friends, ice skating, and participating in school plays. At the age of 13 while riding on a bus, she remembered people running and screaming in the streets that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. Upon graduation from Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, she worked for United Artists Pictures in Manhattan.

In 1947, while skating with her friends at the Empire Skating Ring in Brooklyn, she met John (Jack) Harris, a US Navy sailor returning home from the war. Their first date was a dance at the Floyd Bennett Naval Air Station in Brooklyn. They were married five months later on July 17, 1948, in the beginning of a storied romance that started with 28 years as a Navy wife.

As a Navy wife, she accompanied her husband on his assignments to Naval Stations in Lakehurst NJ., Jacksonville, FL., Glynco, GA., Norfolk, VA., Rota, Spain, and Point Mugu, California before his retirement in 1971.

She was predeceased by her husband of 72 years in 2020. She is survived by her three loving children: John (Susan); Linda (Dale); Kathy (Dan); 12 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and Abby, her beloved four legged faithful friend.

During her life she never she met a stranger and was always prepared to help someone in need. And when her grandchildren stayed at grandma’s house, she could be found in her kitchen making her famous Mickey Mouse face pancakes, Italian pizzelles, and Jewish bobka she learned from her mother who was born in Poland.

The service and burial are at Culley’s MeadowWood Funeral Home located on 700 Timberlane Road, Tallahassee, Florida on Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 12:00 noon.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.CulleysMeadowWoodFuneral.com for the Harris family.