Margaret Arnetta (Barker) BARKER

BARKER, STRAUMANN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/6/2008 at 13:33:08

Lewiston Morning Tribune (Idaho)
October 27, 1995

Margaret A. Barker, 91, Pullman homemaker

PULLMAN, WA-- Margaret Annetta Barker, 91, a Pullman homemaker, died Wednesday of causes related to age at Pullman Memorial Hospital here. She was born Dec. 9, 1903, at Anamosa, Iowa, to William Sherman and Rosetta Straumann Barker. She graduated from Anamosa High School in 1921 and received a master's degree in English education from Cornell College at Mount Vernon, Iowa, in 1926. She taught for two years at Clarion, Iowa, and married Charles L. Barker July 30, 1928, at Mount Vernon. They lived at Minneapolis from 1928 to 1937 and then moved to Pullman, where he was a member of the engineering faculty at Washington State University and she was a homemaker. They enjoyed traveling together after he retired and she continued to travel around the world after he died Nov. 24, 1979. Much of her free time was spent reading text books on tape for blind students at WSU. She spent many summers at the WSU survey camp near White Pass in Washington while her husband was working there. She was a member of Simpson United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, Just a Mere Sewing Club, Tolo Bridge Club, Exodus, Evening Bridge Club, Second Thursday Bridge Club, WSU Retirees, Pullman Federated Women's Club, Nature Group of WSU Women's Club and Phi Beta Kappa.

Survivors include three sons, Thomas W. Barker of Seattle, Richard C. Barker of Sachsen, Germany, and James H. Barker of Fairbanks, Alaska; nine grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Monday at Simpson United Methodist Church with the Rev. Mark Randall and the Rev. Rand O'Donnell officiating.
Memorials may be made to Simpson United Methodist Church or the Pullman Memorial Hospital Foundation.