Retired Army Lt. Col. William Ernest Barnes of Fayetteville died Monday morning at his residence following a long illness. He was 81 years old.
Services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at Higgins Funeral Home with W. E. Skipper, minister of the Washington Street Church of Christ, officiating. Burial was in the Riverview Memorial Gardens.
A native of Lincoln County, Mr. Barnes was the son of the late Abraham M. and Fanny A. McDaniel Barnes of the Cyruston community.
He entered the Army in 1921 and returned in 1952 after having laid cable for the Signal Corps in Alaska, served on a tour around the world and in Hawaii, Korea, and Japan.
For several years, he served as a Lincoln County magistrate, as past head of the Lincoln County Civil Defense, instructor of First Aid for the American Red Cross, and recently the Director of Veterans Affairs for Lincoln County.
He was a member of the Washington Street Church of Christ and for 50 years a Mason and member of the American Legion.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Alma Gray Barnes; three sisters, Mrs. Maude Honey of Estill Springs, Mrs. Eva Meeks of Hazel Green, Alabama, and Mrs. Catherine Flynn of Waco, Texas; four brothers, John Barnes, Robert Barnes, F. A. Barnes, and Claude Barnes, all of Lincoln County; and several nieces and nephews.
Source:
The Elk Valley Times
Fayetteville, Tennessee
Thursday, February 22, 1973
Retired Army Lt. Col. William Ernest Barnes of Fayetteville died Monday morning at his residence following a long illness. He was 81 years old.
Services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at Higgins Funeral Home with W. E. Skipper, minister of the Washington Street Church of Christ, officiating. Burial was in the Riverview Memorial Gardens.
A native of Lincoln County, Mr. Barnes was the son of the late Abraham M. and Fanny A. McDaniel Barnes of the Cyruston community.
He entered the Army in 1921 and returned in 1952 after having laid cable for the Signal Corps in Alaska, served on a tour around the world and in Hawaii, Korea, and Japan.
For several years, he served as a Lincoln County magistrate, as past head of the Lincoln County Civil Defense, instructor of First Aid for the American Red Cross, and recently the Director of Veterans Affairs for Lincoln County.
He was a member of the Washington Street Church of Christ and for 50 years a Mason and member of the American Legion.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Alma Gray Barnes; three sisters, Mrs. Maude Honey of Estill Springs, Mrs. Eva Meeks of Hazel Green, Alabama, and Mrs. Catherine Flynn of Waco, Texas; four brothers, John Barnes, Robert Barnes, F. A. Barnes, and Claude Barnes, all of Lincoln County; and several nieces and nephews.
Source:
The Elk Valley Times
Fayetteville, Tennessee
Thursday, February 22, 1973
Family Members
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Maude Mae Barnes Honey
1892–1985
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John Marion Barnes
1893–1993
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Robert Lee Barnes
1895–1980
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Francis Adrian "Peck" Barnes
1897–1988
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Eva Jane Barnes Meeks
1899–1984
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Claud Robinson Barnes
1900–1987
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Pleas Holbert Barnes
1902–1973
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Molly Kathryne Barnes Flynn
1904–1992
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Edward Carmack Barnes
1906–1959
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Irene Barnes Carter
1909–1999
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