CAMERON — Memorial services for Thomas Mack Harrison, 85, of Buckholts will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Hope Lutheran Memorial Church in Buckholts with the Rev. Gary Kleypas officiating.

Mr. Harrison died Saturday, Jan. 26, at a Cameron nursing home.

He was born Nov. 23, 1922 in Chicago to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Francis Harrison. He graduated from Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Mich. with degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering. He married Ann Elizabeth Cowles after he returned from World War II where he was an officer stationed in the South Pacific with the Army Air Corps. In 1956, he joined the General Electric Company and the family moved from Michigan to upstate New York where he had a 23 year career with General Electric. During that time he published many technical books on improved methods for designing mechanical handling systems and manufacturing facilities. He designed the Crawler-Transporter for NASA that transports the space shuttles to the launching pad, as well as the Vehicle Assembly Building, where the shuttles are assembled. He was preceded in death by his wife on Dec. 22, 1987. He met Betty Crawford in New York. In 1989 they moved from New York to Oklahoma City and got married. They then moved to Buckholts in 2000 where they lived until his death. He was a member of Hope Lutheran Church in Buckholts.

Survivors are his wife; a son, Thomas Mack Harrison of Idaho Falls, Idaho; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

Marek-Burns-Laywell Funeral Home, in Cameron, is in charge of arrangements.