Freeman Roy Barber Sr. (1915-1996) - Find a Grave Memorial

Freeman Roy Barber Sr.

Birth

29 Sep 1915

Indianfields Township, Tuscola County, Michigan, USA

Death

28 Apr 1996 (aged 80)

Redlands, San Bernardino County, California, USA

Burial

Montecito Memorial Park

Colton, San Bernardino County, California, USA Add to Map

Plot

(Northeast corner starts row 1), Magnolia lot, north end, sixth row, about sixty spaces down from the Iris lot

Memorial ID

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Freeman Roy Barber Sr. of Mentone, born in Indianfields, Michigan, had lived in Mentone for 20 years, died of cancer on Sunday at his daughter's home in Redlands at the age of 80. He was a landscape gardener and rancher for 65 years and a member of Brookside Free Methodist Church. He was survived by his wife, Marian, his son, Freeman Jr. of Phelan, four daughters, Edith R. Ecker of Colorado Springs, Dorothy Thomas of Colton, Florence Crum of Redlands and Barb Barber of Yucaipa, his brother, Maurice of Pontiac, Michigan, two sisters, Eva Collins of Michigan and Florence Eimers of Tarpon Springs, Florida, 15 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. Chapel service is set for 10 a.m. on Wednesday at Cortner Chapel with interment to follow at Montecito Memorial Park. The family suggests donations be sent to Redlands Community Hospice in his member.
information from an obituary that was published in the SAN BERNARDINO SUN on April 29, 1996

from the online records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Freeman Roy Barber was born on September 29, 1915 in Caro, Michigan to Cyrus Barber of Michigan and Edith Ann Chambers of Michigan, one of their fifteen children. He married Evelyn Rosetta Pulsifer on July 6, 1939, and after her death, he married Marian Elizabeth Gemmell of California May 18, 1985 in Clark County, Nevada. He died in Redlands, California on April 28, 1996.

Inscription

In Loving Memory / Freeman R. Barber / 1915 - 1996

Gravesite Details

Buried between Evelyn Barber and Marietta Farrow, CDI lists Michigan as his place of birth, provided dates, lists his mother's maiden name as Chambers, SSDI lists Mentone as his last residence