George Harris died Wednesday, August 13, 2025, at the age of 92. He was born on June 14, 1933, on a farm in Flora, MS to William and Maude Harris. Growing up on a farm, he learned the values of honesty, hard work, and kindness that shaped him for the rest of his life. George was preceded in death by his parents and his life partner and later husband of 55 years, C.H. Evans. Jr., known as Corky in Olney and Jack in Dallas. George was a compassionate man, known for his keen mind, sense of humor, and love for his community.

Harris served in the Army for several years in the mid-1950s, training as a stenographer and becoming one of the best in the Army. He was transferred to Washington, D.C., where he worked for the CIA. After his discharge, he moved to Dallas in the late 1950s, and in 1961, he met Jack Evans who had recently moved to Dallas from Houston.

In the late 1970s, Evans and Harris chose real estate as their professions and built their own firm, which became extremely successful. Later, Evans and Harris merged with another agency where they worked until they retired in 2010. They worked together well as a team, and Harris said: "I did the paperwork, and he did the people work."

George and Jack Evans were the first same-sex couple to get married in Dallas County. That day in 2015, Dallas was the largest metropolitan area in the country to gain marriage equality, and a photo of the couple applying for their marriage license in the Dallas County Records Building was printed in newspapers and magazines around the world. Their marriage was filled with love, mutual admiration, and respect.

George and Jack touched almost every organization in Dallas in one way or another and helped secure the history of Dallas through The Dallas Way. Together Evans and Harris helped create many groups — including what is now known as Resource Center where George served on the board for several years. With John Thomas and others, they founded the Stonewall Business Association, the organization that morphed into the North Texas LGBT Chamber of Commerce.

Together Harris and Evans won Dallas Black Tie Dinner's Kuchling Award, the North Texas LGBT Chamber's Lifetime Achievement Award, and they selected to be Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade Pride Honorees.

What Harris was most proud of, though, is a letter the couple received from President Barack and Michelle Obama congratulating them on their marriage. The Obamas wrote, "May your love for one another guide you in all you do, and may your bond grow stronger with each passing year."

A Celebration of Life was held in Dallas. His ashes will be interred alongside Evans' ashes in Olney, Texas in a private service. Together again, and in the end, what George Harris always proclaimed: Love Wins.