In Memoriam

Russ, Harvey Wheeler Formerly of Scituate Harvey Wheeler Russ passed away on September 18, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 94. Born in Buffalo, New York to Hurlburt L. Russ and Elizabeth Eldridge Russ, he grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts and attended South Kent School in Connecticut. Harvey served in the US Navy during WWII and was a proud alumnus of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He played hockey at both schools and continued to play as an adult. Summers were spent at his uncle's farm in Portageville, New York in the company of his dear cousin Hugh M. "Tim" Russ. They attended Lafayette together and joined the Zeta Psi fraternity. Harvey met his wife Kay Christie at the Jersey Shore during his college years. They married and had three children. He is survived by his daughters, Carolyn Russ of Cambridge and New Orleans and her husband Ted McKie, and Kathryn Russ of Nashville, as well as grandson Christie Russ "Spike" Kellogg of Quincy. Son Clyde Christie Russ died in 1977 after an accident. Harvey is also survived by many loving nieces and nephews. The family settled in Scituate, Massachusetts in 1961 where Harvey was active in town politics, cooked clam chowder and bluefish, wrote fiction and poetry and excelled in the hotel and restaurant equipment industry. Harvey married Leslie Harkless in the early '80's and they resided in Scituate. When Leslie passed away Harvey relocated to Bluffton, South Carolina where he played golf and watched Patriots and Red Sox games at the Hidden Cypress Bar. Harvey was the patriarch of the Russ family and had a gift for gathering family and friends for parties, reunions and vacations. Some of the most memorable were sailing the Thousand Islands in rented houseboats, a cottage on Nantucket, reunions at Letchworth State Park in New York and a clambake in his backyard in Scituate. During the last four years Harvey resided at Brookdale Cumberland in Nashville, near his daughter Kathryn, where he made many friends and enjoyed his life, continuing to write, enjoy the Red Sox, and lunching on his favorite pho at a nearby Vietnamese restaurant. He had recently published his second book of poetry "The View from Here."