George Brodhead Harris Jr., a seasonal resident of the Vineyard, died at the Quadrangle, a senior living community, in Haverford, Pa. on April 23. He was 104.

Mr. Harris was born in Germantown, Pa. on Oct. 15, 1907, to George B. Harris Sr. and Elizabeth Holbert Harris.

George lived a full and active life. He attended the George School, then graduated from the University of Virginia in 1929. He attended his post graduate classes at the University of Hawaii and M.I.T. He spent the depression era working odd jobs, selling insurance and riding the rails. He sang in Savoy, a musical group in Philadelphia. Shortly before World War II he volunteered for the Navy and became a celestial navigator on PBM flying boats in the Pacific. In 1948 he married Florence (Flipper) Butcher of Ardmore, Pa. He became a marine surveyor and settled in Gladwyne, Pa. He spent his summers on Martha’s Vineyard.

George was an avid ice dancer, and a keen sailor on both the water and the ice. He was a skating judge, and president of the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society from 1972 to 1974. He was also a member of the Fiesta Dance Club, Rotary International, The Merion Cricket Club and the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club. He square danced and ballroom danced until he was 101.

He is preceded in death by his brothers, Joseph McDonald Harris and George Brodhead Harris Jr., his older brother, and his sisters, Marion Fraiser Harris Paul and Elizabeth Harris Stevens, his wife Flipper B. Harris and his beloved childhood dog, Comanche Nicodemus.

He is survived by his daughters, Lea Harris and her partner, Charles Anthony Mitman, and Starr Simpson and husband Zachary Weeder Simpson, and his grandchildren, George Brodhead Simpson and Mary Lea Simpson.

A memorial service will be held on Friday, June 15 at 11 a.m. at the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church. The family requests no flowers.