Class of 1987
1987 Maroon Spotlight
Doug Harney
1987 Graduation EditionPerry Daily Journal
Douglas Lee Harney has plans to become a veterinarian. He has selected Oklahoma State university as the college of his choice. Born Oct. 10, 1969, in Alva, he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Harney, 603 Quail Creek. Before moving to Perry, he attended first through fourth grades at Lincoln elementary school in Alva. He was a member of the Future Farmers of America for four years and participated in the wrestling program, one year. His favorite subject was vocational agriculture and his hobbies are hunting and fishing. He served as vice president of FFA his senior year.
Douglas Lee Harney
October 10, 1969 – December 3, 2005
Douglas Lee Harney, 36, of Aspermont, Texas, formerly of Perry, Oklahoma, is the son of Bill and Jan (Leathers) Harney. He was born October 10, 1969, at Alva, Oklahoma, and died Saturday, December 3, 2005, near Aspermont, Texas, as the result of a traffic accident.
Doug accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior as a teenager. He loved the Lord in wide open spaces. Oftentimes he would take his hat off and kneel in prayer on the open range.
He was a 1987 graduate of Perry High School and earned an Economics and Animal Science degree from Oklahoma State University in 1989. Doug was a cowboy employed by the Scribe M. Ranch in Stonewall County, Texas.
On October 2, 2004, he and Jennifer Martin were married in Spur, Texas.
In addition to his wife, Jennifer, of the home, survivors are his parents, Bill and Jan Harney, of Perry, Oklahoma; two sisters, Jo Ewy and her husband, Erron, of Piedmont, Oklahoma, and Gina Harney, of Sherman, Texas; one niece, Brooke Ewy, of Piedmont, Oklahoma, three nephews, Bryce Ewy, of Piedmont, Oklahoma, Oliver Prows, of Sherman, Texas, and Jeremy Reed Ybarra, of Big Springs, Texas; and several aunts and uncles.
Doug was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, Lee and Grace Harney, and maternal grandparents, Sam and Ruby Leathers.
Memorial Services will be at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, December 10, 2005 at the First Christian Church in Perry, Oklahoma. Memorial contributions may be made to the Doug Harney Scholarship Fund.