Harmon Anderson Arnold, 81, of Pinson passed away July 30, 2025, at the Henderson Health & Rehabilitation Center. Funeral services were 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, at Shackelford Funeral Directors – Crook Avenue with Bro. Tim Bass officiating. Burial followed at Highland Memorial Gardens in Jackson. The family received friends at Crook Avenue from 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Saturday.
He was born Dec. 29, 1943, in McNairy County, and grew up in the Five Points community, the son of the late T.J. and Mary Margarett Graves Arnold. He attended schools at New Friendship and Chicago, Ill. He worked 20 years at International Harvester in Libertyville, Ill. He returned to Pinson in 1974 and married Catherine ‘Cathy’ Harris. They made their home at Pinson. He worked at I.C.G. Railroad, Jackson Police Department and retired from Williams Steel as a welder in 2006.
He was an avid gardener and enjoyed hunting and fishing. He was a member of the Meridian Baptist Church in South Jackson.
He is survived by his wife, Catherine “Cathy” Harris Arnold of Pinson; two sons, Kenneth Arnold of Medon and Tommy Fitzgerald of Jackson; a daughter, Debbie (Manvel) Phillips of New Concord, Ky.; seven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two sisters, Verlynn Mobley of Spring Hill and Shelia (Bob) Evans of College Grove.
He was preceded in death by a brother, Anthony Arnold and two sisters, Frances Young and Elizabeth “Liz” Kinchen.
