Walter H. Barker
MERIDIAN--Services for Walter H. Barker, 80, Route 1, Eagle,
who died Saturday morning at a Boise hospital, will be
conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at Robison Chapel of the Chimes by
the Rev. Charles Easley. Interment will be at Wilder cemetery.
Mr. Barker was born May 21, 1891, at Guthrie Center, Iowa. He
homesteaded with his parents on the Wilder Bench about 1900.
He married Loretta May Kirnan on July 4, 1920, and she died
August (correction-July) 27, 1929. He had lived at New Meadows
from 1922 to 1927 when he moved to the Boise Valley where he
had since lived. He was a member of the Methodist Church of
Wilder. Survivors, besides his wife of
Eagle, include three sons: George E. Barker, Boise; Richard H.
Barker and Perry E. Barker, both of Caldwell; a daughter, Mrs.
Edna A. Cornell, Meridian; six stepsons, Robert E. Foster,
Houston, Texas; Glenn A. Foster, Eagle; Charles Foster,
Smelterville; Vernon L. Foster, San Marcus, Calif.; Johnny E.
Timmons, Meridian and Gerald W. Timmons, Eagle; four
stepdaughters: Bertha Bartrop, Caldwell; Francis Hutchinson,
Boise; Leona Dayton, Eagle; and Vivian Scott, Homedale;
several nieces and nephews; 11 grandchildren and 50
great-grandchildren. |