Aristides P. Harris, 88, of South Whitehall Township, died May 28, 2015, at his home. He was the husband of Barbara Schreiber Harris since 1998, and the husband of R. Charlotte Treichler Harris from 1953 until her death in 1993. Born in Allentown, he was the son of Peter A. (Hararas) Harris and Mary (Onischuk) Harris and was raised in South Bethlehem and Allentown.

He was a 1944 graduate of Allentown High School, where he served as sports editor of The Canary and a 1950 graduate of Moravian College, where he majored in business administration and played varsity basketball. He served for years as a referee in semiprofessional basketball leagues in eastern Pennsylvania.

He began his work in his family's drycleaning business at age 11 and as a teenager worked also as a copy boy for the Associated Press at The Morning Call in Allentown.

He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1944 to 1945.

He owned and operated American Drycleaners, 17th and Allen streets, Allentown, a business founded by his parents in 1936, until his retirement in 2003 and built the adjacent coin laundry, The Carriage House Laundromat, in 1963, and owned and operated it to his retirement. He also built and owned the first coin-operated drive-through car wash in Allentown and The Linden Tree Laundromat in Bethlehem.

With his wife Charlotte and his in-laws, Charles and Ruth Treichler, he built, owned and operated The Blue Plum Drycleaners and the 6th Street Laundromat, both in Emmaus and Charlotte's Quick Wash in Allentown. He was a partner in Park 100 West Associates and other real estate ventures and a member of Lehigh Country Club.

He was a past president of the National Drycleaners Association, the National Automatic Laundry and Cleaning Council, the Pennsylvania Automatic Laundry Council, Lehigh Valley Drycleaners Guild and the Lehigh Valley Coin Laundry Association. He was a past president of the West Allentown Kiwanis Club, the Lehigh Chapter of the Order of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association and served on the boards of Sacred Heart Hospital, Leigh County Prison and the Allentown YMCA/YWCA.

He was a shareholder and former director of the Lehigh County Agricultural Society and a former elder of First Presbyterian Church of Allentown.

He is survived by his wife; son, Peter D. and his wife Susan, of Boston's South Shore; daughter, Judith A., of Allentown and her companion, Dr. Jack Mydlo; stepsons, William A. Kline, of Salt Lake City, Utah, Scott H. Kline and his wife Shirley, of Emmaus, Dr. Jeffrey S. Kline and his wife Dr. Carma Heitzmann, of Menlo Park, Calif.; stepson-in-law, Carmen Pascucci, of LaCosta, Calif.; six step-grandchildren. He was predeceased by a sister, Ann Elaine Baker in 1995, and stepdaughter, Paula Pascucci in 2011.

Memorial contributions may be made in his name to First Presbyterian Church of Allentown, 18104.

A Celebration of Life service will be held 10 a.m. Sept. 12 in the sanctuary at First Presbyterian Church of Allentown, 3231 Tilghman St., Allentown. Arrangements were made by the J.S. Burkholder Funeral Home, Allentown.