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Rachel Barkley <I>Hobbs</I> Hamilton

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Rachel Barkley Hobbs Hamilton

Birth
Paris, Edgar County, Illinois, USA
Death
14 Nov 1983 (aged 77)
South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Mrs. Rachel (Sally Barkley) Hamilton, 77, of 2908 Jamestown Ct., Mishawaka, died at 3:10 p.m. Monday in St. Joseph’s Medical Center following an illness of one year. She was employed as an ADT phone operator in the plant protection department of the Bendix Corp. From 1949 until retiring in 1971.

She was born on Aug. 9, 1906, in Paris Ill., and had lived in the South Bend area since 1932, coming from Illinois. As Rachel Hobbs, she married George M. Barkley in 1932 in South Bend. He died in October 1947. Then in 1956, she married Horace Hamilton, who died in 1977.

Surviving are a son, Richard Barkley of Michigan City; tow step-daughters, Mrs. Winifred Fullmer of Niles and Mrs. Vera Stiffler of South Bend; a ste[-son, Dean Hamilton of Edwardsburg; three grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Myrtle Pacot of Mansfield, Ohio; and a brother, Oscar Hobbs of San Marcos, Calif.

Services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Forest G. Hay Funeral Home, 1201 S. Michigan, with Rev. Timothy Martaugh, pastor of South Side Christian Church, officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park, Granger. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home. She was a member of the church, Order of Eastern Star, White Shrine, Amaranth, and the American Women’s Business Association. Memorial contributions may be made to the South Side Christian Church.

Published in the South Bend Tribune; Tuesday, Nov. 15, 1983.

Contributor: Scabbardfish
Mrs. Rachel (Sally Barkley) Hamilton, 77, of 2908 Jamestown Ct., Mishawaka, died at 3:10 p.m. Monday in St. Joseph’s Medical Center following an illness of one year. She was employed as an ADT phone operator in the plant protection department of the Bendix Corp. From 1949 until retiring in 1971.

She was born on Aug. 9, 1906, in Paris Ill., and had lived in the South Bend area since 1932, coming from Illinois. As Rachel Hobbs, she married George M. Barkley in 1932 in South Bend. He died in October 1947. Then in 1956, she married Horace Hamilton, who died in 1977.

Surviving are a son, Richard Barkley of Michigan City; tow step-daughters, Mrs. Winifred Fullmer of Niles and Mrs. Vera Stiffler of South Bend; a ste[-son, Dean Hamilton of Edwardsburg; three grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Myrtle Pacot of Mansfield, Ohio; and a brother, Oscar Hobbs of San Marcos, Calif.

Services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Forest G. Hay Funeral Home, 1201 S. Michigan, with Rev. Timothy Martaugh, pastor of South Side Christian Church, officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park, Granger. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home. She was a member of the church, Order of Eastern Star, White Shrine, Amaranth, and the American Women’s Business Association. Memorial contributions may be made to the South Side Christian Church.

Published in the South Bend Tribune; Tuesday, Nov. 15, 1983.

Contributor: Scabbardfish

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