THE DAYTONA BEACH NEWS-JOURNAL
Daytona Beach, Florida
Saturday, August 1, 1994

BUNNELL – Coy G. Harris, 66, of C. R. 302, a former Flagler County school superintendent dies Sunday at home.

Mr. Harris was the last elected superintendent in Flagler County history. Voters in 1980 voted to convert to an appointed superintendent system and Mr. Harris declined to put in a resume to be considered for the appointment.

He did remain with the Flagler County system for four more years and retired in 1984 as head of the maintenance and transportation departments. After that, Harris owned and operated Coy Harris Culvert Sales for many years until recently.

Veteran board member Herschel King recalled that Harris was a good superintendent who got board directives accomplished. Harris, he said, was one of the people instrumental in securing state parimutual funds for the original $1.6 million Flagler Palm Coast High School project I the early 1970s.

Later, Mr. Harris worked with the board to get the state to agree to let the district to use left over money from the high school project to build Bulldog Stadium, King  said. The legislature was threatening to take away the leftover funds.

“I served with him many years and I think we went a long ways together,” King said.

Mr. Harris, an Army veteran of the Korean War, moved here 40 years ago from his birthplace, Bonifay.

The former head coach for the Bunnell High School football team and a past principal at Crescent City High School, he was a 1952 graduate of Florida State University and earned a master’s degree at the University of South Florida.

He was a member of Bunnell First United Methodist Church, the American Legion, Bonifay Masonic Lodge and was a 32nd degree Mason in the Shrine Club.

Survivors include his wife, Connie; two daughters, Catheline Robinson and Diane Whitt, both of Bunnell; two sons, Gary, Crescent City, and Kenneth, Bunnell; his mother, Lennie Ross, Bonifay; a stepdaughter, Judy Lindamood, Bunnell; two stepsons, Scott Morris, Thomasville, N.C. and Steven Morris, Newton, Kan.; three sisters, Ruth McGowan, Westville, Faye Tate, Bonifay, and Ann Heinen, Fitzgeral, Ga.; four brothers, Russell, Cantonment, Rex, Bonifay, and Fred and Bill, both of Bunnell; and 12 grandchildren.