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Woodward – Harry Highfill, 89, retired farmer and rancher, died Tuesday at a Woodward hospital. The funeral will be 10 AM Friday at the First Baptist Church in Mooreland with burial at the Mooreland Cemetery. Arrangements are by Billings Funeral Home.
James Harry Highfill was born January 17, 1897, near Zenda, Kansas. After attending schools in that area, he farmed and ranched as well as operated grain elevators in Pratt, Kansas. He and Lena Wilcox were married in 1900 in Pratt. She died in 1919.
On October 6, 1926, he married Ethel Davis in Woodward. They lived in Kansas until May 1938 when they moved to a farm south of Mooreland. She died in 1968.
After his retirement from farming and ranching, he moved to Woodward and on August 10, 1971, married Edith Humphrey. He was a member of Crown Height Baptist.
Survivors include his wife, Edith; three sons, Dean, Wichita, Kansas, Alvin, Woodward, and Gordon, Dallas, Texas; a daughter, Evelyn Maupin, Woodward; a sister, Ethel Dorner, Woodward; eight grandchildren; and 10 great – grandchildren.
Memorials in his name may be made to Woodward Crown Heights Baptist Church, parking paving fund.
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