Beckham Co. - Obit for James Vernon Barker Sr. Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ James Vernon Barker Sr. McLEAN - James Vernon Barker Sr., 73, died Tuesday, July 6, 1999. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the First Baptist Church with the Rev. James Martindale, pastor, and Norman Jones, of Primitive Baptist Church at Elk City, Okla., officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery at McLean by Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors of Pampa. Mr. Barker was born in Sayre, Okla., and had been a resident of McLean most of his life. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. He was an oil field operator for Barker Drilling Co. in Shamrock. He was a member of the McLean First Baptist Church. He married Patsy "Pat" Egleson in 1947 in Amarillo. Survivors include his wife; a son, Jim Barker of Amarillo; a daughter, Janice Bible of Savannah, Ga.; and four grandchildren. The family requests memorials be to BSA Hospice of the Panhandle, Box 2795, Pampa, TX 79066-2795.