This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clarston, Lavender, Willis Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7880 Message Board Post: Retired Boron Resident Passes Funeral services for Walter Barnes, who died in a Bakersfield hospital June 5, 1954, were held in O'Donnell Funeral Home Chapel on Tuesday, June 8, 1954, at 2 p.m. Mr. Barnes was born October 17, 1883, in Wilson County, Tennessee, and had been a resident of Boron for the past 10 years. He was a retired electrician. He is survived by his wife, Salena, of Boron, three sons, Thomas of Mojave, David A., of O'Fallon, Mo., and Buford A. of Desota, Mo.; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Clarston of Boron and Mrs. Edna Lavender of Elsinore, Mo. Also surviving is a stepson, Robert Willis of Mojave. Officiant of the service was Rev. Earl Reavis of the Boron Communtty Baptist Church, soloist was Mr. Cecil Debord. Interment was in the Mojave cemetery. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 10 Jun 1954