Carter Co. OK -  Davis D. Barber - 12 Sept 1898 - 6 Aug 1964

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   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 ]