Obit of Barber, Leroy - Washington County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Terri    16 Oct 2005
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Surnames: BARBER, SIEBLES, MIDDLETON, BEASLEY, JUSTUS, LADNER, HOWARD,
SIMPSON, OSBORN, MCKISSICK, ALEXANDER, HICKS, MURGUIA, KNIGHT, CROOK,
from 2-2-2003 Examiner Enterprise

Leroy Barber

Mr. Leroy Barber age 76, died at 2:30 a.m. Friday in the Jane Phillips
Geriatrics Center.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Monday in the First Church
of God Church in Dewey with Pastor Tony Siebles officiating. Burial will
be in the Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of the Walker-Brown
Funeral Home. Military graveside rites will be conducted by the James H.
Teel Post #105. Pallbearers will be Craig Middleton, Steve Beasley, Robert
Justus, Tommy Ladner, Clint Howard and Larry Simpson. Honorary pallbearers
will be John Osborn, Vernon McKissick, Paul Alexander, John Hicks, Tony
Murguia and Chester Warren Knight.

Mr. Barber was born on January 22, 1927 in Welty, Oklahoma to Charles Ray
And Odessa (Crook) Barber. He moved with his family to Okemah in 1936 and
attended high school and graduated with the class of 1944. He entered the
United States Navy during WW.II. in 1945 where he attained the rank of
Third Class Chief Petty Officer. After his discharge in 1946 he returned
home and married May Kathryn Justus of Okemah on May 27, 1949. He began
his 37 year association with the Phillips Petroleum Company in 1948 as an
IBM Tabulator Operator. He retired in 1985 as a Supervisor of IBM/EAM
Processing. Leroy and May have been active members of the First Church of
God in Dewey for fifty five years. Leroy served on the board of Trustees
and was his sunday school class teacher for 46 years.

He is survived by his wife May of the home one son and his wife Phil and
Jill Barber of Woodlands, Texas, two sisters Norma Beasley of Peoria Ill,
and Freda Middleton of Oklahoam City,; one brother, Ivan "Tug" Barber of
Cleveland, Oklahoma, two grandsons Blake and Reed Barber of Woodlands,
Texas and numerous nieces and nephews and a host of friends. He was
preceded in death by his parents and a brother Lynn Barber.
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