Posted on: Searcy Co. Ar Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/SearcyObits/10030 Surname: ------------------------- Mr J. D. Barnes, age 86, of Whitney TX died December 22, 1988 in Lake Whitney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services were held December 24 at Marshall Chapel with Rev. Eddie Booth and Rev. Kenneth Stevens officiating. Burial was in Whitney Memorial Park. Mr. Barnes was born July 10, 1902 at Snowball, Arkansas, the son of Corbin Elijah and Mattie Jane Tipton Barnes. He was the oldest of ten children and had lived in the Whitney area the past 60 years. He married Novella Shelley November 25, 1928. He was preceded in death by two brothers; John"Burn'em-up" Barnes and Woodrow "Woodie" Barnes, also a sister Emma Drewry. He was a Baptist, a retired rancher and was a member of the Whitney Odd Fellows Lodge No. 300, and was a member of the Hill County Farm Bureau. He is survived by his wife, Norvella Barnes of Whitney; one son W. D. and his wife Joyce Barnes of Pasadena, TX; four brothers, Parker Barnes of Witt Springs, AR, C. W. Barnes of Bridge City TX, Isaac Barnes of Arlington, TX, Virgil Barnes of Whitney, Tx; three sisters;, Ranna Kirk and Arbie Pautsky of Wichita Falls, TX, Anna Beseda of Hillsboro, Tx; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.