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Submitted: 5/7/21 • Approved: 5/11/21 • Last Updated: 5/14/21 • R416876-G416876-S3
Jim John
1897-1972
Grace I.
1895-1984
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Jim
Funeral services for Jim John Barker, 74, of 121 Veta, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday from the CHurch [sic] of God on Franklin Street with the Rev. Kenneth Stephens, pastor, officiating.
Interment will follow in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Minton Mortuary.
Barker died at 2:30 p.m. Monday at High Plains Baptist Hospital in Amarillo. He had been a resident of Borger since 1926 and will be remembered selling hot tamales up and down Main Street. He was a retired Church of God minister.
Survivors include his wife, Grace of the home; two sons, Rev. Jim H. Barker of Kansas City, Kans. and Dean Barker of Fitzgerald, Ga.; one daughter, Mrs. Robert Copeland of Plainsview; and 11 grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Tuesday, March 28, 1972, Page 2)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Jim Barker
Death Date: 27 Mar 1972
Death County: Potter
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Jim John Barker
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 74
Birth Date: 31 Jul 1897
Birth Place: Menard, Arkansas
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 27 Mar 1972
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Father: Jim Barker
Mother: Delia Hall
Spouse: Grace Barker
*Grace
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Grace Barker
Death Date: 25 Jul 1984
Death County: Lubbock
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Grace Barker
Last Residence:
79412 Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas, USA
BORN: 15 Feb 1895
Died: Jul 1984
Contributed on 5/7/21
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