Beckham Co. OK - Obit for Orville F. (Dink) Barker Submitted by: Wanda Purcell wpurc25758@aol.com ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Orville F. (Dink) Barker age 82 of Sayre passed away Wednesday January 12, 1983 in Sayre Memorial Hospital. Services were Saturday, January 15, 1983 at 2:00 p.m. in the Reydon First Baptist Church with Eddie Overstreet officiating. Burial was in the White Rose Cemetery, Reydon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Rose Chapel of Sayre. He married Vivian Atha on September 19, 1927 in Sayre. They lived in the Reydon Community until 1981 then moved to Sayre. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Reydon. He was preceded in death by his parents, Richard and Mary Barker; one son, Troy Dean; a brother, Earl and 3 sisters, Mildred Butler, Ruby Barker and Hazel Howell. He is survived by his wife, Vivian; 1 daughter Mary Lee Gibson, Tulsa; 3 grandchildren, Therease Broden, Houston, Texas, David Gibson and Robert Barker, both of Stillwater, OK; 1 daughter-in-law, Mary Ann Barker of California; 3 brothers, Arthur of Sayre, Fred of Clarksdale, Arizona and Glen of Kingman, Arizona; 5 sisters, Vera Byers of Truxton, Arizona, Leora Sullenberger and Edidth Brown both of Sayre, Creda Miller, Texola, OK and Ruth Hughes of Reydon, OK.