IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Zelda "Bubbles"
Barker
January 9, 1926 – December 23, 2016
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Zelda "Bubbles" Barker, age 90, of Electra, Texas passed away Friday, December 23, 2016, in Hospice of Wichita Falls.
Services will be at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, December 29, 2016, at the First United Methodist Church of Electra with Rev. Bob Lee officiating. Interment will follow in Electra Memorial Park under the direction of Aulds Funeral Home of Electra.
The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 28, 2016, at Aulds Funeral Home of Electra.
Zelda was born January 9, 1926 in Wilbarger County, Texas to the late Thelbert Earle Rawle and Patsy Estell Bowden Rawle.
She married the love of her life, Thomas "Ike" Barker on February 8, 1942. They were married seventy-one and a half years before he preceded her in death on June 6, 2013.
Bubbles was employed by Sherrill, Crosnoe and Goff Law Firm for eighteen years until her retirement in 1988. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Electra and the Electra Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. She delivered Meals on Wheels for several years and volunteered for the Electra Public Library.
Bubbles reared her five sons and was like a second mom to many of their friends. She loved to fish, crochet, do needlepoint, genealogy and watch her grandchildren and great-grandchildren in their activities. She was a fabulous cook and her specialty was her chocolate pies.
Survivors include her sons, Gary Barker and wife, Sharon of Holliday, Don Barker and wife, Sue of Whitesboro, Dale Barker and wife, Shirley of Duncan, Oklahoma and Wendell Barker of Holliday; sister, Viola Long of Crowley, Texas; ten grandchildren; twenty-eight great-grandchildren; and her special family, Kenneth and Diane McAlister and family of Electra.
She was also preceded in death by one son, Thomas Elmo, Jr. on August 14, 1974; two sisters, Lorine Hardin and Marie Chester; and four brothers, Cecil, Sanford, Richard and Charlie Rawle.
The family suggests memorials to the First United Methodist Church, 1107 South Bailey, Electra, Texas 76360 or to St. Jude Children's Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38105.
Services will be at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, December 29, 2016, at the First United Methodist Church of Electra with Rev. Bob Lee officiating. Interment will follow in Electra Memorial Park under the direction of Aulds Funeral Home of Electra.
The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 28, 2016, at Aulds Funeral Home of Electra.
Zelda was born January 9, 1926 in Wilbarger County, Texas to the late Thelbert Earle Rawle and Patsy Estell Bowden Rawle.
She married the love of her life, Thomas "Ike" Barker on February 8, 1942. They were married seventy-one and a half years before he preceded her in death on June 6, 2013.
Bubbles was employed by Sherrill, Crosnoe and Goff Law Firm for eighteen years until her retirement in 1988. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Electra and the Electra Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. She delivered Meals on Wheels for several years and volunteered for the Electra Public Library.
Bubbles reared her five sons and was like a second mom to many of their friends. She loved to fish, crochet, do needlepoint, genealogy and watch her grandchildren and great-grandchildren in their activities. She was a fabulous cook and her specialty was her chocolate pies.
Survivors include her sons, Gary Barker and wife, Sharon of Holliday, Don Barker and wife, Sue of Whitesboro, Dale Barker and wife, Shirley of Duncan, Oklahoma and Wendell Barker of Holliday; sister, Viola Long of Crowley, Texas; ten grandchildren; twenty-eight great-grandchildren; and her special family, Kenneth and Diane McAlister and family of Electra.
She was also preceded in death by one son, Thomas Elmo, Jr. on August 14, 1974; two sisters, Lorine Hardin and Marie Chester; and four brothers, Cecil, Sanford, Richard and Charlie Rawle.
The family suggests memorials to the First United Methodist Church, 1107 South Bailey, Electra, Texas 76360 or to St. Jude Children's Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38105.
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