Barlar, Mrs. Red (Opal) 1912-1996

BARLAR, FERDIG, HESSING, HEWITT, BROOKS, STULL, ROGERS, HECK

Posted By: Janet Schuldt, Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/15/2010 at 16:55:25

Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, USA April 9, 1996, Page B5

Opal t. Barlar, 83, Sioux City, died Sunday, April 7, 1996, at Countryside Retirement Home following a long illness.

Services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday, at Christy Smith & Hockenberry Funeral Home with Dr. Robert E. Peters of Community Presbyterian Church of Lawton, Iowa officiating. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery at Mapleton, Iowa. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. There will be a prayer service at 7:30 p.m.

Mrs. Barlar was born November 25, 1912, in rural Mapleton, the daughter of Harry and Cora (Hessig) Ferdig.

She graduated from Mapleton High School and then became active in marathon dancing from coast to coast, settling in California at the start of World War II.

She lived most of her life in California, where she worked in war plants and owned and operated restaurants. She then worked for a butcher shop and was a former member of Northern California Butchers Union.

She suffered a stroke in 1985 in California and moved to Sioux City nursing home in June 1991.

Survivors include a sister, Jo, and her husband, Claire Hewitt of Rodney, Iowa; two brothers, Robert Ferdig and his wife, Hazel of Greenville, Texas, and Raymond Ferdig and special friend, Vera of Rogue River, Oregon; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Red Barlar; four sisters, Beulah Brooks, Ruth Stull, Thelma Rogers and Vera Heck and two brothers, William and Virgil Ferdig.

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