Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  FRANK LINDSEY BARNES

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FRANK LINDSEY BARNES

OCNS - March 20, 2002 - Reverend Frank Lindsey Barnes, 90, retired 
minister of the Love of God Tabernacle in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, and a 
resident of Cushing, Oklahoma, since 1999, died at 2:20 p.m., on 
Monday in the Cushing Regional Medical Center.

A native Oklahoman, Frank Lindsey Barnes was born southwest of Sperry, 
Oklahoma, on May 26, 1911, the son of Simon and Ivy Nell (Metzger) 
Barnes.   He was reared and received his education in the Sperry 
schools. 

December 2, 1932, in Claremore, Oklahoma, he was united in marriage 
with Liddie Ethel Neeley who preceded him in death on February 1, 1999, 
in Cushing, Oklahoma, where Reverend Barnes remained living in 
retirement.

Frank was employed by the W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration) in 
the construction of the Grand River Dam at Langley, Oklahoma.   He and 
his family moved to Skiatook, Oklahoma, where Frank was an automobile 
mechanic with the Success Motor Company for two years before becoming 
an employee of the Great Lakes Pipeline company.   Following Great 
Lakes' merger with the Williams Brothers Pipeline Company, Mr. Barnes 
moved to west Tulsa and became Chief Engineer for the Williams 
Brothers Company and traveled in Oklahoma and Kansas.   He remained in 
their employ for seventeen years, retiring in 1960. 

Reverend Barnes became an ordained minister and was assigned to the 
non-denominational Forrest Valley Community Church near Perkins, 
Oklahoma, and was later assigned to a church in Chandler, Oklahoma, 
where he served as pastor for five years.   He had served as an 
evangelist throughout the western United States until 1963 when he 
established the Love of God Tabernacle in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, where he 
was the pastor until his retirement, after thirty-six years, in 1999, 
at which time they moved to Cushing.

Survivors include:   Two sons, Charles and his wife, Arlene of Cushing, 
and Bruce and his wife, Teddi, of Moore, Oklahoma; a daughter, 
Ms Juanita Herrin, Phoenix, Arizona; twelve grandchildren; twenty-one 
great grandchildren; five great-great grandchildren; three brothers, 
Leonard Barnes and Billy Joe Barnes, both of Skiatook, Oklahoma and 
Donald Barnes of Hominy, Oklahoma; four sisters, Mrs. Lucille Robinson 
and Mrs. Albert (Lorine) Lewallen, both of Turley, Oklahoma; 
Mrs. Dorothy Peace of Claremore, Oklahoma and Mrs. Bill (Marjorie) 
Seymour of Sand Springs, Oklahoma.   He was preceded in death by his 
father, mother, a brother, Fred Barnes and a sister, Ida Mae Barnes.   
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, March 22, 2002, 
in the Love of God Tabernacle, 1201 East Eleventh Street, Pawhuska, 
Oklahoma, with Reverend James Hager, Reverend Geoffrey Hager and 
Reverend Bob Sullivan officiating.   The funeral cortege will drive 
overland to the Oglesby, Oklahoma Cemetery where committal prayers 
and interment will be directed by the Arnold Moore Funeral Service. 

Reverend Barnes will lie in state in the Drawing Rooms of The Arnold 
Moore Funeral Residence at 621 South Johnston, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 
where friends may call for their visitation until he is removed to the 
church for final rites on Friday.

Arnold Moore Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.