Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Barker, Ernest Ray 1934
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Belding Banner-News, 15 Mar 1934

Word was received by Belding relatives Saturday of the death of Ernest R.
Barker, Greenville, following an operation in the Greenville hospital that
morning for goiter.  Mr. Barker had been in poor health for the past year but
only recently was it decided the operative work was necessary.

Ernest R. Barker, 53, was born at Alba, coming to Belding with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William Barker, when a lad of 6 years.  He attended school here and at
an early age began working for Belding-Hall Co. in the tin shop under his
brother, Owen Barker.  He was married in 1902 to Bertha Porter, sister of Wess
Porter, of this city.  Mr. and Mrs. Barker were parents to one daughter,
Fearnley, now Mrs. Gordon Rettinger, of Greenville, who with the mother is left
to mourn her father’s death.  The Barkers moved to Greenville in 1910.  Mr.
Barker was one of the first men to be employed by the Gibson Refrigerator Co.,
having worked for them for the past twenty-four years.  His last position being
that of experimental engineer and overseer in the electrical department.

Funeral services were held from the Brown funeral home in Greenville Tuesday
afternoon at 2:30.  The Masonic lodge had charge of the services, the deceased
being a Master Mason.  Burial was in the family lot in Otisco cemetery. 
Surviving besides the immediate family are two brother, Owen and Will, of this
city, also two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Steele Brown and Mrs. Arthur Coles, both of
this city.


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