Harlan Family Ninety-Plus Club

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR HONORED
NINETY PLUS CLUB MEMBERS !!!!

The Officers and Board of Directors of The Harlan Family in America established a “NINETY-PLUS CLUB” which includes living members of the Harlan/Harland/Harlin family who are 90 years of age or older. Let us know if you or a relative qualifies. Send your message to Ruth Harlan Lamb whose e-mail address is: harlamb@aol.com

FRANCES MASON HARLAN WRIGHT was born May 31, 1912, and is listed in Alpheus Harlan’s genealogy book. Her father was George Mason Harlan (#6100), and she is one of his 17 children. Frances began to play the piano at an early age and went on to become a piano teacher, with membership in the National Piano Teachers Guild and Who’s Who in Piano. She attended West Texas State College, married James Austin Wright in 1936 and later completed her education at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. The couple had one son, James Harlan Wright (1943-1982), four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Frances continued to teach piano until she retired at the age of 80 and still enjoys playing. She continues to live on the original homestead in Slaton, Texas, and cherishes her family heritage.

JANICE SMITH NUFER was born April 25, 1913. She lives with her husband of 69 years in Tucson, AZ. They have three daughters, Sharon Williams, (Davis, CA); Mary Tullis (Joplin, MO); and Becky Nufer (Clovis, NM). Her line is: James I, George 3, Aaron 8, Samuel 40, George 189, George, Thomas Cowlie, James B., Thomas Henry, Hazel Harland.

JAMES HARLAND SMITH was born August 1, 1916, to Hazel Harland and James P. Smith. He lived his teen and young adult years near Oxford, Kans., and worked in the oil fields. In the 1960s, he became a Baptist minister, ending his career in Concordia, Kans., where he and his wife, Ruby, now reside. They had four children, James, Jr.; Barbara; Donald and Patricia.

JOHN WILLARD ASH was born August 26, 1916, in Jourdanton, Texas, son of John A. Ash and Rachel Harlan Ash. At age four, he left Texas and went to California where he has lived for 90 years. Willard met his late wife, Anna M. Ash, at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, while serving in W.W.II. They were married for 60 years. Willard has two brothers, James Ash, who was a pilot in W.W.II and the Korean War where he was killed, and Warren Ash, a veteran pilot of W.W.II and the Korean War, living in California. He also has one sister, Rae Ash Thompson, a skilled horsewoman living in Washington. He has two sons: Gregory and Kevin, and two daughters: Jane and Corinne, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Willard has always been a big University of Southern California sports fan and sent all four of his children to USC for their education.

MAX B. HARLAN, JR. was was born September 2, 1916. Max served in World War II for 32 months, and on his way home from the service on a Greyhound bus, he proposed to his beautiful girlfriend, Virginia Morrison. They married and had 60 happy years together. Two daughters were born to the couple. Max was a bank manager in Cumberland, Va., where he resides, and has been active in his Methodist Church.

MARY DREWS LOMINAC was born December 21, 1917, daughter of Bessie Harland and Charles E. Drews. She married Ernest Lominac and lived most of her life in Memphis, Tenn., but recently moved to O’Fallon, Mo. Mary has two sons, Charles and John Kent.

HENRY CRAWFORD HARLAN was born January 21, 1918, in Arkansas. He is the son of Lee O. Harlan and wife, Ollie W. Doak. H.C served in the Philippines and was captured by Japanese at the fall of Corregidor in May 1942. He later married Mary Louise Holland in Arkansas, and they are the parents of two daughters, Judith Harlan Chaffin of Tennessee and Marilyn Harlan White of Missouri, H.C. and Mary Lou live in Trumann, AR, on the family farm.

JOHN HOLLINSWORTH GRISCOME, SR. is a sixth great-grandson of George Harlan and Elizabeth Duck. He was born in Augusta, Georgia on March 4, 1918, to Charles Walter Griscom and Stella Charlton Hollingsworth. He married Louise Lyons Lacy in May 1941, and they celebrated their 70th anniversary in 2011. He was drafted in 1944 in the Marines and served in China as a flight engineer with the 1st Marine Air Wing. He was discharged in 1946 and worked at Warner Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, until retiring in 1975. There are two sons, four grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. John currently lives in Flower Branch, GA.

BARBARA GLEW HAYTHORN was born March 30, 1918, in Creston, IA, during the peak of the pneumonia epidemic, and her mother spent 13 weeks in the hospital after contracting pneumonia. Her mother, Mary Harlan (Mamie), is #10037 in Alpheus Harlan's book. Barbara married J. Willis Haythorn, and they lived 32 years in the Chicago area before retiring to Tryon, NC, in 1978. She has two sons and four grandchildren.

MARVIN MCDOW was born in Portland, Oregon, October 20, 1918. He had a twin sister, Ezane, who is now deceased. Marvin came to California when he was about 4 years old from Spokane, Washington. He served 5 1/2 years in W.W.II and graduated form the University of the Pacific. Marvin worked as a school teacher and administrator in Stockton, California, schools. He and his wife, Roberta, have two sons, Mikkel and Stephen, and one grandson, Elijah Stephen Mavin is a world traveler, enjoys his retirement and is active in civic organizations.

BETTY HARLAN HARRISON was born August 8, 1919, in Santa Cruz, CA, and was raised on the Harlan ranch near Riverdale, CA. She met her husband, Al Harrison, at Fresno State College. She was a secretary for insurance companies and attorneys in Fresno before becoming an insurance adjuster. Betty's interests include traveling, camping, fishing and china painting. She is the mother of four children: Gene, Pat (Fluetsch), Russ and Steve.

ANNA MAE HARWOOD CRANE was born on December 12, 1919, in Hartley, Iowa. She married Jackson Blair Crane in June of 1943 while he was stationed at the Sana Ana Army Air Base in Orange Co., Calif. Anna Mae was a housewife and mother to six children. She served as homeroom mother to all the children and enjoyed decorating their home for holidays. Anna Mae and her husband enjoyed traveling. she now resided in Whittier, Calif.

CLIFFORD HARLAN HULLINGER was born on July 3, 1920. His 90th birthday was celebrated by a large family reunion of all the descendants of his parents, John and Pearl Harlan Hullinger. Clifford was the Director of Research of American Maize Corporation. He served in the 109th Engineers of the 34th Infantry Division in World War II, serving in Africa and Italy, and receiving a battlefield Commission at Anzio. He was a founder and former President of the Beacon School.Clifford married Louis Liffengren. They have four children: Craig, Neil, Anne, and Scott Hullinger; and six grandchildren.