Daisy (Mohler) Barr (2009)

BARR, CONWAY, MOHLER, REEVES

Posted By: Shirley Keating
Date: 4/2/2009 at 16:22:38

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, April 1, 2009

DAISY BARR, WINTERSET

Daisy Barr, 91, of Winterset died March 30, 2009, at Madison County Memorial Hospital in Winterset.

Funeral services were held today (Wednesday, April 1) at McCalley-Collins Funeral Home in Winterset with Pastor Ben Turner officiating. Burial was at Winterset Cemetery. Memorials given will be directed to her family.

Daisy Barr was born Sept. 3, 1917, to Leonard and Anna (Reeves) Mohler of Pleasantville. She was a 1935 graduate of Swan High School and later received her Normal Teacher Training degree from Simpson College.

Her marriage to Delbert Barr took place June 2, 1940, in Pleasantville. They moved to Lorimor in March of 1953 where she resided until moving to Winterset Care Center South in January of 2005. Daisy taught school for five years, became a farm wife, sold Avon and hand-tooled leather crafts, and worked at the former Bizz Mart Grocery Store. She had been a member of the First United Methodist Church and an active office holder in Farm Bureau.

She was preceded in death by her husband; a brother, Arthur Mohler; a sister, Jan Conway; and a grandson, Ronald Wayne Barr.

She is survived by one son, O. Wayne Barr of Lorimor; two grandsons, one great-grandson and three great-great-grandchildren.

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