Clarissa Ann Harless Carson was reunited with her late husband James Richard Carson on July 21, 2013, after a brief illness. Clarissa was born Sept. 28, 1930, the youngest child of Howard H. Harless and Harriet Ann Wallace Harless, who preceded her in death. She was also preceded in death by two sisters, Iva Mildred Gill and Betty Jean Alexander, and two brothers, Wallace Reid Harless and Paul Summers Harless. Mary Ethel Spurlock is her surviving beloved sister. Also surviving are son and daughter-in-law, Richard Stephen and Linda Anne Carson; son Paul Kelly Carson; daughter Joanna Jean (Jodi) Carson; and daughter and son-in-law, Jill Harriet and Samuel Mark Shaffer. Additional survivors include granddaughter Jenny Linn Beckelhymer; grandsons Joseph Paul Carson (Jeannine and Zoe), Christopher Todd Carson, Samuel Carson Shaffer and Jacob Riley Shaffer; great-grandson Carson Reese Beckelhymer; brother-in-law Vernon Alexander; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Clarissa was a former employee of the McKesson Drug Co. and a former secretary for Pea Ridge and Highlawn United Methodist churches, but first and foremost she was a wife, mother and grandmother. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Huntington and a former member and choir member at Cross Roads and Southside United Methodist churches. She was an avid traveler, having organized, directed and orchestrated a series of vacations from Maine to California and Texas to Canada for a family of six in a station wagon and tent camper. Amazingly she was still willing to accompany her husband in later years to Great Britain, Europe, the Middle East, Egypt, Australia and the Canadian Rockies among other destinations. Clarissa was a popular partner in many bridge clubs in Huntington and Barboursville, and was the favorite cook in her “Scattered Flock”, which included Brenda Patton, Cynthia Beal, Ann Tebbetts, Janet Grimes and Leah O’Rourke. She will also be missed by special friends Lois Hamrick, Rose Zella Morris, Alma Edwards and Kay Bunn, and all of her neighbors at the Woodlands Retirement Community. Service will be 2 p.m. Saturday in the Chapman’s Mortuary chapel, with the Rev. Chris Wood and the Rev. Mark Connor officiating. Visitation will begin at noon in the chapel. Pallbearers will be her four grandsons, nephew David Dwight Messinger Jr., and family friends H.O. (Jack) Morris, Grover L. Hamrick and Dr. James Butler. Entombment will follow in Woodmere Memorial Park Abbey of Remembrance, South Garden of Faith, Huntington. Chapman’s Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Hospice of Huntington.