BETHESDA -- Stephen Adler Harmon, 94, of Bethesda (Independence County) and recently of Russellville, died at St. Mary's Hospital in Russellville on Saturday, June 16. He was born south of Bethesda near Harmontown on June 3, 1907, and was a member of the Bethesda Campground Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Pansy Harmon; three sons and their wives, Bob and Helen Harmon of Green Valley, Ariz., Bill and Suzanne Harmon of Russellville, John T. and Elizabeth Harmon of Plano, Texas; nine grandchildren, Frank Norman of Oklahoma City, Susan Newton of Russellville, Stephen Harmon of Arlington, Va., Bobby Franklin of Arlington, Va., Hazel Peters of Bethesda, Kirk Harmon of Lake Charles, La., Hope Tate of Little Rock, Trent Harmon Jr. of Plano, Texas, and Michelle Hoge of Conway. He is also survived by his 11 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren. He was the grandson of a Confederate Civil War veteran, Stephen Anderson Harmon, who was one of a family of early settlers in the Batesville area. His father, Stephen Ashley Harmon, farmed and ran a cotton gin and mill all his life in the Bethesda area; his mother, Sophrona Quintella Williams Harmon, died shortly after his birth. He was raised by his father and grandfather on their farm south of Bethesda and attended a one-room school house at Chinquapin and later high school at Batesville. He left the farm during the Great Depression to help support the family and worked for the railroad for the next 43 years. He was a Foreman at the Union Depot in Little Rock when they were running 23 passenger trains per day through Little Rock. He retired from the Missouri Pacific Railroad in North Little Rock in 1968 and returned to the family farm at Bethesda. He lived to be the longest dues-paying member in the United States of his labor union, the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America. He and his wife were active supporters of the Bethesda Community Center and their church for all their years at Bethesda. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, June 20, at the Bethesda Campground Methodist Church, followed by burial at the Bethesda Campground Methodist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends in the social room of the Bethesda Campground Methodist Church following interment. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Bethesda Community Center, Bethesda, AR 72501.