Barker, Frances Tann – 1867-1962

BARKER, GOULD, OFFENHAUSER, SOUTH, TANN

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 11/30/2022 at 08:46:08

Mrs. Geo. (Fannie) Barker, 95, Died Thursday
Mrs. George (Fannie) Barker, 95, died Thursday June 28, 1962 at the Jasper County Home. She had been in failing health the past five years, but had been able to be about her home until her last illness. She had entered the County Home at Newton Tuesday of last week. Death was due to pneumonia and heart failure.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tann, she was born at Gedney Drove End, Lincolnshire, England, June 18, 1867. In 1885, she was married to George Barker at Derbyshire, England. The couple came to this country for the first time in 1887 settling near Oskaloosa. They went back to England to live in 1890, returning to Iowa in 1909 to the Seevers and Colfax communities, where they spent the remainder of their lives. She was a member of the Rebekah Lodge.
Mrs. Barker was preceded in death by her husband in March of 1943 and a son, Charles. She was the last surviving member of a family of 15 children.
Surviving her are three daughters, Mrs. Frances M. South and Mrs. Clarice Gould of West Des Moines and Mrs. Cass A. Offenhauser of Lemon Grove, Calif.; a grandson, George Barker of Colfax, whom she raised; 8 other grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at the Walters Funeral Home in Colfax. Rev. Dale Nicholson, minister of the Methodist Church, conducted the services.
Bearers: Lester Barker, John Gould, Ronald Gould, Theodore Hesseltine, Abraham Hunter, Murray Ringland.
Burial was in the McKeever Cemetery.
Source: The Colfax (IA) Tribune; Thursday, July 5, 1962, page 1