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Submitted: 10/4/21 • Approved: 10/4/21 • Last Updated: 10/7/21 • R461047-G461047-S3
August 9, 1901-August 10, 1977
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Services for Mrs. Zelma Rosetta Barr, 76, who died Wednesday, August 10, 1977, were held at 2:30 P.M. Friday, August 12, 1977, at the First Baptist Church with the Rev. David Campbell, pastor, officiating. Burial was in the Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.
Mrs. Barr had been a resident of Wheeler County most of her life and married J.W. Barr, April 18, 1926 at Wheeler. She was Baptist.
Survivors include her widower, John; three sons, Johnnie of Burleson, Texas, Nathan of Panama City, Florida, and Reggie of Crossplains, Texas; two daughters, Mrs. Lois Powers of Austin, and Mrs. Margie Brakefield of Fort Worth; 2 sisters, Jackie Rogers of Abilene and Mrs. Mary Cook of Slatton; eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Pall Bearers were Percy Farmer, W.A. Goad, Fred Goad, Adrian Risner, Dorman Thomas, and Doyce Watson.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 43, Number 35, Thursday, August, 18, 1977, Page 1)
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Zelma Rosetta Barr
[Zelma Rosetta Clark]
Birth Date: 9 Aug 1901
Birth Place: Arlington, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas
Spouse: John Barr
Father: M L Clark
Mother: Margaret Wheeler
Age at Death: 76
Death Date: 10 Aug 1977
Death Place: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
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