Deaths & Funerals
Coleman Chronical & DV - August 1995
Opal Barnett, 87
Opal Barnett, age 87, of Coleman died Tuesday, August 1, 1995 at Coleman
Healthcare Center.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. today, Thursday, at Stevens Funeral
Home Chapel, with Rev. Clyde R. Majors officiating. Burial will follow in
the Coleman Cemetery, under the direction of Stevens Funer Home.
Born January 19, 1908 in Odessa, she was the daughter of the late Eugene O.
and Blanche Gertrude Mullins Baker. She grew up in Brown County and graduated
from Howard Payne University. Before her marriage, she was a school teacher. On
August 3, 1931, she married Artie A. Barnett in Coleman County.
Mrs. Barnett was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Artie Barnett, on September 26, 1988,
and a son, Allyn Barnett, in 1982.
Survivors include a sister, Ida Munger of Brownwood, and one grandson,
Beau Barnett of Santa Cruz, California.
Pallbearers will be Kenneth Lemons, Dave Blake, David Mercer, Roy Gardner,
Tommy McCullough and Pat Justice.
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