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ELK COUNTY OBITUARIES
June 1995
MRS. MARIE R. BARNER
MOL1NE -- Marie Reeves Barner, 81, homemaker, of Moline, died June 7
, 1995, at the Elk Manor Nursing home in Moline.
Services will he 11 a.m. Monday at the Moline United Methodist Church
. The Rev. Larry Bowyer will officiate. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Monda
y in the Belle Plaine Cemetery.
Memorials have been established with the Moline Friendship Meals, th
e Moline United Methodist Church and the Belle Plaine United Methodis
t Church.
Contributions may be left with Zimmerman Funeral Home, Howard, which h
as charge of arrangements.
Barner was born Jan. 23, 1914, in Derby, the daughter of James Allen a
d Mary Elizabeth (Buckles) Reeves. She was raised in Udall and gradua
ted from Udall High School in 1932.
She married Charles Merle Barner June 4, 1934, in Newkirk, Okla. The
y owned and operated a farm outside Belle Plaine until moving to a far
m near Moline in 1973.
She was a member of the Belle Plaine United Methodist Church where sh
e had served as president of the Women’s Society of Christian Servic
e and as a lay delegate to the annual conference. She was a member o
f Rehekah Lodge 725 in Belle Plaine, and she was a Past Noble Grand. S
he also worked as a Cub Scout and 4-H leader.
Survivors include her husband, Merle Barner, Moline; three sons, Eldo
Barner, Oklahoma City, Okla., Melvin Barner, Belle Plaine, and Terr
y Barner, Moline; two daughters, Saundra Stanley, Emporia and Merlen
e Barner, Hygiene, Colo.; 14 grandchildren md 13 great-grandchildren.
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