Caldwell
-- Services for Harry B. Barker, 73, of
Caldwell, route 3, who died Monday in a
Nampa
nursing home, will be conducted at the Peckham-Dakan-Davis
chapel Saturday at 2 p.m. The Rev. Eldon Shields will
officiate. Interment will be in Wilder.
Mr. Barker was born
August 6, 1886, in Glendon,
Iowa, and moved with his parents in 1893 to
Bloomfield,
Oklahoma, where he was reared. He
came to Star with a sister in 1907 and homesteaded near Wilder
two years later. He was married December 24, 1914, in Wilder
to Elsie Frank and they later were separated. He lived at New
Meadows from 1920-1936, when he moved to the Apple Valley community
west of here. He was married June 30, 1942, in
Walla Walla,
Washington, to Elsie Mae Gray and they since
have lived in the
Boise
valley. In addition to Mrs. Barker, he is survived by a son,
Dale Barker, of Caldwell; a daughter, Mrs. Ruby Glenn, of
Caldwell; a step-son, Walter L. Gray of Trenton, Michigan;
four step-daughters, Mrs. Velma I. Barker and Mrs. Alice M.
Barker, both of Boise; Mrs. Helen E. Cress of Eugene, Oregon,
and Mrs. Myrtle E. Fowler of Blackfoot; two brothers, Walter
Barker of Eagle and George Barker of Panora, Iowa; and 13
grandchildren |