Berrien County GaArchives Obituaries.....Bartel, Merle Mary Barber November 9, 2010
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The Berrien Press - November 24, 2010
 Merle Mary Barber Bartel, 85, died November 9, 2010, at her daughter’s home in 
Hoquiam, WA, four weeks after suffering a mild stroke on her October 13 
birthday.
 Born October 13, 1925, in Berrien County to the late Flossie Lee and B.W. 
Barber, she married a dashing soldier, Fred Bartelheimer, who had joined the 
Barber family for a Sunday barbeque. He felt smitten by the dark-haired beauty 
and determined to make her his bride. They married October 3, 1942, and 
established their home in Valdosta near Moody Field Airbase where her husband 
was stationed.
 Later they relocated to Denver, CO, where their first daughter, Faith, was 
born, and Fred shortened the family name to Bartel. At the end of WWII, the 
Bartels left the Army Air Corp and moved to Snohomish, WA, to establish a dairy 
farm and raise six more children.
 Merle sold the farm three years after Fred’s death in 1999. With advancing 
Alzheimer’s disease, she remained under the care of her daughters and spent her 
last two years living in Hoquiam with daughter Barbara and son-in-law John 
Danner.
 Survivors include daughters, Janice Traw of Centralia, WA, Barbara Danner 
(John) of Hoquiam, and Paula Slavens (Rick) of Beaverton, OR; sons, Fred Bartel, 
Jr., Duane Bartel of Sumner, WA, and Michael Bartel (April) of Bothell, WA; 15 
grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren.
 In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by a 
daughter, Faith; her sister, Dorothy Bush; and brothers, Virgil Barber, L.A. 
Barber and Elmo Barber.
 A private gathering for interment and a celebration of life was held at GAR 
Cemetery in Snohomish on November 22.
 GAR Cemetery of Snohomish was in charge of arrangements.


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