Beckham, OK -- Davis D. Barber - 1898-1964

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                Davis D. Barber - 12 Sept 1898 - 6 Aug 1964
                                      
   Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday for the Rev. Davis D.
   Barber, 65, who died suddenly early Thursday morning at his home 229
   Campbell [Ardmore].
   
   The Rev. Richard T. Hopper will officiate at the rites in the First
   Baptist Church, assisted by Dr. T.B. Lackey, executive secretary of
   the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, the Rev. Fred Stover of
   The First Baptist Church, Fox, and Dr. Karl Moore of Ardmore.
   
   Other Baptist ministers of the Ardmore area will serve as bearers.
   These will be the Rev. L.M. Norwood, the Rev. Monroe Palmer, the Rev.
   Don Clark, the Rev. Gene Ottwell, the Rev. Joe Wiggins and the Rev.
   Forrest Wicks. All ministers of the Enon Baptist Association have been
   named as honorary bearers.
   
   Barber was born Sept. 12, 1898, in Wagoner, and married Leta J.
   Hollis, Aug. 2, 1923 at Mountain View. He was graduated at Oklahoma
   Baptist University and attended Southwest Theological Seminary, Fort
   Worth, Texas. During World War II he was a captain in the Corps of
   Chaplains, serving in the European, African and Middle Eastern
   Theaters.
   
   A Baptist minister for 42 years, Barber came to Ardmore 12 years ago
   as superintendent of missions of the Enon Baptist Association and also
   was associated with the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist
   Convention. He came to Ardmore from Haskell County. He had previously
   served churches in Oklahoma City, Erick, Pauls Valley and Chickasha.
   
   The minister had just returned from a Baptist camp at Glorietta, N.M.
   Wednesday night, arriving home about midnight. He died about and hour
   later.
   
   Survivors include the widow: three daughters, Mrs. Don Morgan, Temple,
   Mrs. George Fyke, Mesquite, Tex. and Mrs. George Honeycutt, Chico,
   Calif.; a brother, N.L. of Tulsa; two sisters, Mrs. Pearl Howard,
   Oklahoma City, and Mrs. W.C. Hollis, Pryor, and 11 grandchildren.
   
   Harvey Funeral Home will direct burial in Rose Hill Cemetery.
   
   [ from the Daily Admoreite, August 8? 1964 ]