CHARLES P. BARNES 1887-1946

BARNES, DIMOND, PETERSON, HUZZEY, CULVER, HENDERSON

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Date: 8/1/2004 at 12:36:25

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR CHARLES P. BARNES OF 1026 MORGAN STREET, WHOSE SUDDEN DEATH OCCURRED AT GRAHAM HOSPITAL FRIDAY MORNING AT 11:15 O'CLOCK, OCTOBER 11,1946, WILL BE HELD MONDAY AT 2 P.M. IN THE GREAVES MORTUARY. THE BODY WILL REMAIN THERE UNTIL TIME FOR THE SERVICE.
HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL ONLY TWO HOURS BEFORE HIS DEATH.
BORN IN BELLEFONTE, PA., HE CAME TO KEOKUK IN 1911 TO WORK ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DAM AND POWERHOUSE.
IN 1912 HE MARRRIED KATHERINE E. DIMOND AT QUINCY, ILL.
AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE DAM HE WAS EMPLOYED FOR 18 YEARS BY CAMERON-JOYCE AND COMPANY BUT RECENTLY HAD BEEEN EMPLOYED AT THE DRYDEN RUBBER CO.
SURVIVING ARE A SON, ROBERT BARNES, OF CALIFORNIA; THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. DEE PETERSON, OF KANSAS CITY, MO., MRS. KENNETH HUZZEY, OF FONTANA, CALIFORNIA, AND MRS. ROLLA CULVER, OF DETROIT; THREE BROTHERS, DR. CHESTER BARNES, HOMER BARNES AND HARRY BARNES; AND ONE SISTER, MRS. DAISY HENDERSON, ALL OF PEORIA, ILL.
HIS WIFE PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH IN OCTOBER OF 1943. A DAUGHTER, TWO BROTHERS AND HIS PARENTS ALSO PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.