Barbara Ruth Champion Varner
February 20, 1935 ~ March 19, 2020
FORT WORTH-Barbara Varner, 85. passed away March 19, 2020. She was born February 20, 1935 in Fort Worth, Texas to the late Norburne Toliaferro Champion and Ruth Geneva Cleveland.
She was the grand daughter to a Baptist Preacher, raised her children in the Presbyterian tradition and always followed the Golden Rule. She graduated from John H. Reagan High School Houston, Texas and attended University of Houston. Barbara had fun times as a University of Houston Frontier Fiesta Showgirl. She was an Administrative Assistant for an oil firm as soon as she departed the University of Houston. Her hobbies included genealogy, bridge, bowling, golf, ceramics, Cub Scout Den Mother, crochet and macramé.
Bobbye, as she was best known married her late husband, Kenneth Willard Varner Jr. on May 30, 1958. Born and raised in the south, their life as civilians in the Army started out as a shock when they were deployed to an Army depot in Savanna (Illinois, not Savannah, Georgia). She loved the excitement of traveling Europe, while the family was stationed in Germany. She remembered the rose her husband gave her on the jetway after flying to California alone with two small children. She knew the joys of years spent living on Sear's Revolving Credit and the satisfaction of remodeling all of her houses.
Preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth Willard Varner, Jr. Survived by her sons, Andrew Benoist and Christopher Champion Varner, grand children and other family members and friends.
Graveside service: March 25, 2020 at Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Texas. Brown Owens & Brumley Family Funeral Home
February 20, 1935 ~ March 19, 2020
FORT WORTH-Barbara Varner, 85. passed away March 19, 2020. She was born February 20, 1935 in Fort Worth, Texas to the late Norburne Toliaferro Champion and Ruth Geneva Cleveland.
She was the grand daughter to a Baptist Preacher, raised her children in the Presbyterian tradition and always followed the Golden Rule. She graduated from John H. Reagan High School Houston, Texas and attended University of Houston. Barbara had fun times as a University of Houston Frontier Fiesta Showgirl. She was an Administrative Assistant for an oil firm as soon as she departed the University of Houston. Her hobbies included genealogy, bridge, bowling, golf, ceramics, Cub Scout Den Mother, crochet and macramé.
Bobbye, as she was best known married her late husband, Kenneth Willard Varner Jr. on May 30, 1958. Born and raised in the south, their life as civilians in the Army started out as a shock when they were deployed to an Army depot in Savanna (Illinois, not Savannah, Georgia). She loved the excitement of traveling Europe, while the family was stationed in Germany. She remembered the rose her husband gave her on the jetway after flying to California alone with two small children. She knew the joys of years spent living on Sear's Revolving Credit and the satisfaction of remodeling all of her houses.
Preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth Willard Varner, Jr. Survived by her sons, Andrew Benoist and Christopher Champion Varner, grand children and other family members and friends.
Graveside service: March 25, 2020 at Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Texas. Brown Owens & Brumley Family Funeral Home
Barbara Ruth Champion Varner
February 20, 1935 ~ March 19, 2020
FORT WORTH-Barbara Varner, 85. passed away March 19, 2020. She was born February 20, 1935 in Fort Worth, Texas to the late Norburne Toliaferro Champion and Ruth Geneva Cleveland.
She was the grand daughter to a Baptist Preacher, raised her children in the Presbyterian tradition and always followed the Golden Rule. She graduated from John H. Reagan High School Houston, Texas and attended University of Houston. Barbara had fun times as a University of Houston Frontier Fiesta Showgirl. She was an Administrative Assistant for an oil firm as soon as she departed the University of Houston. Her hobbies included genealogy, bridge, bowling, golf, ceramics, Cub Scout Den Mother, crochet and macramé.
Bobbye, as she was best known married her late husband, Kenneth Willard Varner Jr. on May 30, 1958. Born and raised in the south, their life as civilians in the Army started out as a shock when they were deployed to an Army depot in Savanna (Illinois, not Savannah, Georgia). She loved the excitement of traveling Europe, while the family was stationed in Germany. She remembered the rose her husband gave her on the jetway after flying to California alone with two small children. She knew the joys of years spent living on Sear's Revolving Credit and the satisfaction of remodeling all of her houses.
Preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth Willard Varner, Jr. Survived by her sons, Andrew Benoist and Christopher Champion Varner, grand children and other family members and friends.
Graveside service: March 25, 2020 at Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Texas. Brown Owens & Brumley Family Funeral Home
February 20, 1935 ~ March 19, 2020
FORT WORTH-Barbara Varner, 85. passed away March 19, 2020. She was born February 20, 1935 in Fort Worth, Texas to the late Norburne Toliaferro Champion and Ruth Geneva Cleveland.
She was the grand daughter to a Baptist Preacher, raised her children in the Presbyterian tradition and always followed the Golden Rule. She graduated from John H. Reagan High School Houston, Texas and attended University of Houston. Barbara had fun times as a University of Houston Frontier Fiesta Showgirl. She was an Administrative Assistant for an oil firm as soon as she departed the University of Houston. Her hobbies included genealogy, bridge, bowling, golf, ceramics, Cub Scout Den Mother, crochet and macramé.
Bobbye, as she was best known married her late husband, Kenneth Willard Varner Jr. on May 30, 1958. Born and raised in the south, their life as civilians in the Army started out as a shock when they were deployed to an Army depot in Savanna (Illinois, not Savannah, Georgia). She loved the excitement of traveling Europe, while the family was stationed in Germany. She remembered the rose her husband gave her on the jetway after flying to California alone with two small children. She knew the joys of years spent living on Sear's Revolving Credit and the satisfaction of remodeling all of her houses.
Preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth Willard Varner, Jr. Survived by her sons, Andrew Benoist and Christopher Champion Varner, grand children and other family members and friends.
Graveside service: March 25, 2020 at Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Texas. Brown Owens & Brumley Family Funeral Home
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Married: May 30, 1958
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