This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BARNES, WILLIAMS, SNEED, MARTIN, HALE, WOODS, CAMPBELL, CROWELL, WEDLAKE, HENKINS, NICHOLS, HOWK Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/826 Message Board Post: >From a Hughes Co. newspaper, Nov. 8, 2001 Louis BARNES Funeral services for Louis BARNES will be held Thursday, Nov. 8, at 10:30 a.m. at the Church of Christ in Wetumka with Frank WILLIAMS officiating. He was born Sept. 23, 1914 in Yeager, the oldest son of Homer S. and Annis BARNES and died Nov. 4 at the Veterans Hospital in Muskogee at the age of 87. As a young man, he helped farm with his father in Wetumka. Mr. BARNES served in World War II in the 130th Infantry of the United States Army . During that period he was overseas for 30 months with six months of combat in Luzon. Mr. BARNES was a heavy machine gunner and carbine marksman. Upon discharge on Dec. 13, 1945, he was awarded the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with bronze star and good conduct medal. When he returned to Oklahoma, he began farming south of Calvin and farmed until 1956. Mr. BARNES met Billie SNEED and they were married on Dec. 16, 1948 in Holdenville. After retiring as a civil servant from Tinker Air Force Base he returned to Wetumka. In August, 1961, Mr. BARNES and his wife, Billie, were baptized together in Newalla at the Church of Christ. He was active in the church at Newalla, Choctaw, Weleetka and Wetumka. Mr. BARNES baptized his mother-in-law, Beulah MARTIN, and his niece, Julie HALE. Mr. BARNES was preceded in death by his parents; his brother and dearest friend, Bruce BARNES; three sisters, Myrtle BROWN, Beatrice WOODS and Edgilee CAMPBELL; and an infant daughter, Regina Victora BARNES. Survivors include his wife of almost 53 years, Billie (SNEED) BARNES; four children and spouses, Joy and Steve CROWELL, Vanessa WEDLAKE, Hal and Deanna BARNES and Dena and Preston JENKINS; 11 grandchildren, Eric and Trevor CROWELL, Cara, Nichols, John, Caroline and Tessa WEDLAKE, Karin and Jeff BARNES, Sherrita, Jamie and Kalin JENKINS; a granddaughter-in-law, Amanda CROWELL; a grandson-in-law, James NICHOLS; two great-grandsons, Jackson Louis NICHOLS and Eric Drake CROWELL; and siblings, Mildred CAMPBELL, Blanch HOWK, Marionnette SUNNY, Helen KAISER and Carl BARNES. Pallbearers will be Steven CROWELL, Preston JENKINS, Eric CROWELL, Trevor CROWELL, John WEDLAKE and Jeff BARNES. Interment will be at Wetumka Cemetery under the direction of Williamson Funeral Home of Wetumka.