Ina Mae Barnes
ALBA – Services for Ina Mae Barnes, 91, of Alba, are scheduled for 1:00 p.m. Friday, January 25, 2013, at First Baptist Church, Quitman, with Bro. James Nickell officiating.
Graveside services will be Saturday, January 26, 2013, at Stepp-Barnes Cemetery, Weatherford at 11:30 a.m.
Mrs. Barnes passed away Tuesday, January 22, 2013, at her residence.
She was born November 23, 1921, in Palo Pinto, to the late Clyde W. and Effie Mae Funderburk Woods. She was a graduate of Wichita Falls High School and married Oliver Barnes January 17, 1943, at Highland Heights Baptist Church in Wichita Falls. She was an accomplished pianist and quilter, bookkeeper, student of the Bible, and taught the Bible most of her life. She even hand wrote the entire Bible twice. She graduated from Mary Hardin Baylor College in Belton, at the age of 52. She and her husband spent 35 years building over 100 mission churches from Mexico to Canada as volunteers. She lived most of her life in Chattanooga, Oklahoma, had lived in Alba since 1994, and was a member of the First Baptist Church of Quitman.
Survivors include her husband of 70 years and 4 days, Oliver Barnes of Alba; son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Cecile Barnes, of Alba; brothers, Jack Woods and wife Pat of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Clyde Woods and wife Sonya of Homestead, Florida; sisters, Inez Calloway, and Barbara Key and husband Al, all of Wichita Falls; 3 grandchildren; and 9 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, and brother, J.W. Woods.
Pallbearers are Bryan Barnes, Michael Barnes, Alex Barnes, Brad Gibson, Tanner Gibson, Jake Brandvold, Logan Brandvold, and Tom Brandvold.
Memorials may be made to the Lottie Moon Christmas offering at First Baptist Church, P O Box 1887, Quitman, 75783.
Family will receive friends 6-8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.