Obit of Maria Boulware Barnes (b652) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Wanda Purcell   <wpurc25758@aol.com>  26 Jan 2001
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Surnames: Barnes, Boulware, Kent, Hutchinson, Stephens, Mercer, Bryant, 
Smimmo, Blount 

Maria Barnes was born Mary 19, 1920 at Farmersville, Texas, to John K. and 
Ninnie S. Boulware and died Wednesday, October 20, 1999 at Pampa, Texas at 
the age of 79.

Maria attended school in Hammon and Herring. She married R.A. "Bob" Barnes 
on July 6, 1938 in Sayre. She was a homemaker. After he husband retired 
from the Soil Conservation Service, they became house parents for the Grady 
County Youth Services in Oklahoma.

She was a member of the Briarwood Full Gospel Church and the Briarwood 
Senior Group.

Services for Maria Barnes of Pampa, Texas will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, at the 
Briarwood Full Gospel Church, with Rev. Lynn Hancock, pastor, officiating. 
Arrangements are under the direction of Carmichael-Whatley Funeral 
Directors of Pampa.

Graveside services will be at 3:30 p.m., Friday, at the Red Hill Cemetery, 
Hammon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma with Dolan Ivey of Hammon, 
officiating. Burial will be under the direction of Martin Funeral Home of 
Elk City.

She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Ninnie Boulward; one 
grandson, Lyndel Wayne Kent; one sister, Ethel Hutchinson; and two 
brothers, Lee Boulware and George Boulware.

Survivors include: four daughters and sons-in-law, Bobbie Sue and Bill 
Stephens of Pampa, Texas, Myrna and Bob Mercer of Irving, Texas, Carolyn 
and Charles Bryant of Jacksonville, Alabama, and Aseneth and Randy Simimmo 
of Hurst, Texas; one son and daughter-in-law, Keith and Rhonda Barnes of 
Willis, Texas; one sister, Lillie Blount of Sapulpa; one brother, John 
Boulware of sugar Hill, Georgia; 14 grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren; 
and five great great grandchildren.

Memorial may be made to BSA Hospice, P.O. Box 2795, Pampa, Texas 79066-
2795, of Briarwood Full Gospel Church, 1800 W. Harvester, Pampa, Texas 
79065. 
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