Mary Barker

BARKER, KECK, DODDS, SHEETS, ERRION

Posted By: Gloria Jean Dodds (email)
Date: 5/11/2002 at 03:32:28

MRS. ARTHUR BARKER 1966

Mrs. Mary Barker, 81 died Apr. 6, at 10:30 a.m. at Ottumwa Hospital, where she had been taken April 5. She became seriously ill on Monday.
The service was Friday, April 8, at 10:30 a.m. at
Catcott Funeral Home with the Rev. Aldreth V. Weigel, officiating. Burial was in Millers Chapel
Cemetery northeast of Mt. Zion. The daughter of
John and Sallie Keck Dodds, she was born Dec. 14, 1884, near Bonaparte. Her marriage to Arthur Barker took place April 27, 1910. The couple farmed near Mt. Zion. Mr. Barker died in 1957.
For six years Mrs. Barker had resided in Keosauqua, where she was active in the Methodist Church while retaining her membership in the Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church. Survivors include two
daughters, Mrs. Floyd Sheets of Fairfield; and Mrs.Gerald Errion of Peoria Heights, Ill. two brothers, Ralph Dodds of Bonaparte and Donald Dodds of California; six grandchildren and four
great-grandchildren. Besides her husband, she was
prededed in death by a brother Harry.

Keo. Republican Apr 1966