Clarence worked in California for a time after graduating from high school in 1931, and then went into the garage business with Ames CROSS in Mount Ayr. He married [1941] LaVIECE MAIN and they moved to the home farm west of Benton in 1943, where they still reside. They have six children: Barbara, David, Karyn, Dan, Lana, and Rita.

Barbara married Garold CANNY and they have a son, Brian. They live in Montgomery, Texas.

Karyn married Raymond STONE and they live in Des Moines. They have four children: Monica, Mark, Malinda, and Michelle.

Lana married Richard GIBSON and they are the parents of two children: Stephen and Stephanie.

Rita lives in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, with her husband Lattry HUNTER, and [they have] two children, Nathan and Allison.

After three years in the Army, Dan returned to the farm and went into partnership with his father. While in the Army, he married Chin Hui Oh (Jeannie) and they have two children, Leslie and Lance, later adopting Linda and Lisa. Linda is now married to Gary KLEJCH of Mount Ayr.

After graduating from college and working a few years, David moved to a nearby farm and joined Dan former Carol CASS, of Illinois, and they are the parents of Heather, Erin, Michael, and Sean.

David and Dan's children are the fifth generation of the BARKER family to grow up in the Benton community.

NOTE: Clarence A. BARKER was born on September 1, 1912 on the family farm near Benton, Iowa. During World War II he served in the U.S. Navy. Clarence died at the age of 87 on March 22, 2000, and was interred at the Benton Cemetery.

SOURCE: 1887 - Benton, Iowa Centennial - 1987. Pp. 145-47. Courtesy of Mount Ayr Public Library, Mount Ayr IA

Transcriptions and notes by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2012

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