Barber, Ruth Young - 1900-1957

BARBER, GILBERT, KINZE, MUNFORD, WEISINGER, WILLSEY, YOUNG

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp (email)
Date: 3/3/2016 at 21:24:48

Mrs. F. W. Barber Succumbs After Long Illness
Many in this community were saddened this week by news of the death of Mrs. F. W. Barber who succumbed Monday at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colo. A former resident of Monroe, Mrs. Barber had been seriously ill for five months. Her son, William and his family of Monroe went to be with her when her condition became critical two weeks ago. She was 57 years old.
Funeral arrangements and interment were planned to be held Wednesday at Colorado Springs. Complete details have not been available here.
The family has expressed a desire that instead of flowers, any memorial gifts be in the form of cash contributions to the cancer fund. These gifts may be made directly to Mrs. Russell Gage of Newton, Jasper county cancer fund chairman. The family will later receive a memorial card upon which will be inscribed the names of persons who gave toward the memorial.
Mrs. Barber is survived by her husband; two sons, William of Monroe and John of Denver, Colo.; a daughter, Margarett R. Willsey of Colorado Springs; four grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. Mary Y. Munford, New York City, Mrs. A. W. Kunze, Colfax, Mrs. R. H. Weisinger, Yellvilla, Ark., and Mrs. Dennis M. Gilbert, Lime Springs; four brothers, Harold W. Young of Cedar Falls, Charles E. Young of Sheldon, Wash., Ben M. Young, Richland and J. Thomas Young, Knoxville.
Mrs. Ruth Y. Barber was born January 6, 1900, in What Cheer, to Charles E. and Gertrude Young. She was graduated from high school at Colfax and attended Iowa State college, Ames. She was married April 13, 1924, to Francis W. Barber. She lived most of her life in Jasper county, residing in Monroe from 1926 until the family moved to Ames in 1946, and from there to Colorado Springs several years later.
Throughout the years, the family has been associated in the ownership of the W. P. Barber Lumber Company here.
Mrs. Barber belonged to First Methodist Church and Chapter DL, P.E.O. at Colorado Springs, and to the Fairview chapter of O.E.S. and American Legion Auxiliary at Monroe.
Source: Monroe Mirror; 19 September 1957