Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  Richard Barker

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The Hominy News - Progress
P.O. Box 38, Hominy, Okla 74035
Transcribed by Sharon Hamilton: sharkay@cccexpress.com
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The Hominy News - Progress
Vol. 33, No. 41
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
Pages 1 and 5

Richard Barker, Former Chief of Police Dead at 61
(Photo Included in obituary)

Former Hominy Chief of Police Richard Barker died last week at his 
home in Stillwater.

Barker came to Hominy in May of 1997, and served as Chief of the 
Hominy Police Department until his retirement this past summer.

He also served as acting city manager for a number of months in 1998.

Richard Lynn Barker, Sr. was born in Lucien, Oklahoma on Feb. 24, 
1940 to Samuel and Myrtle Edith (Witter) Barker.  He died in 
Stillwater on October 5, 2001 at the age of 61.

A veteran, Barker served in the United States Navy.  He and Irma 
Joyce Cook were married May 15, 1959 at the First Baptist Church in 
Perry.

Barker was a police officer in Perry before coming to Hominy.  He was 
a member of the Fraternal Order of Police and had been involved in 
D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) and Gang Resistance 
Education and Training (GREAT).

A licensed and ordained Baptist minister, Barker had served as pastor 
of Freedom Baptist Church at Billings, OK.  Since then he frequently 
was called on to officiate at weddings and funerals.

In addition to his wife Irma, he is survived by two daughters and 
sons-in-law Tami and Allen DeVillbiss, Perry and Angela and Richard 
Warfield, Dallas, Texas;  one son and daughter-in-law, Lynn and 
Crystal Barker, Orlando, OK; two grandsons, Matt DeVilbiss, Stillwater 
and Winston Warfield, Dallas; four granddaughters, Leslie DeVilbiss, 
stillwater, Jalyn Barker, Orlando, and Aubrey and Ashley Warfield, 
Dallas; one sister and brother-in-law, Dine and Todd Cardin, Perry; 
one brother Gary Howard Barker, Billings; one brother-in-law and 
sister-in-law Charles and Mary Lou Cook, Kellyville, OK; and numerous 
aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews.

Barker was preceded in death by his parents and one granddaughter, 
Lindsey Hope Warfield.
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