Lucille Marie Barber

Lucille Marie Barber, 89, died Saturday, September 17, 2011 at the Solomon Valley Manor in Stockton, KS.

She was born September 17, 1922 in Plainville, KS the daughter of Charles and Stella (Fike) Yeagy. On April 1, 1945 she married Vuferd Lee Barber at the Glendale Methodist Church near Ramona, KS officiated by her brother, Rev. Robert Yeagy. Vuferd Lee Barber died September 30, 2001.

She was an elementary school teacher for 32 yrs. having taught in Alton, Plainville, Kinsley, Palco, Russell and Bushton. She was a member of the United Methodist Church, Palco, the United Methodist Women, Delta Kappa Gamma, and received her BS and MS degrees in education from Fort Hays State University.

Survivors include three sons, Robert Lee Barber of Palco, KS, Kenneth Charles Barber and his wife Alice of Austin, CO, and Douglas Joe Barber of Palco, KS, one daughter, Betty Marie Burton and her husband Bob of Shawnee, KS, nine grandchildren, Tait Barber, Ryan Barber, Amanda Schneiweis, Chad Barber, Jeffrey Barber, Melanie Duncan, Nathan Burton, Kristin Copeland, and Zachary Burton, and eight great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a brother, Rev. Robert Yeagy, two sisters, Naomi Pinson and Mary Bishop, and a grandson Jaron Barber.

Funeral services will be at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at the United Methodist Church, Palco, KS. Burial will be in the Plainville Cemetery. Friends may call from 5:00 until 7:00p.m. on Tuesday at the Hays Memorial Chapel Funeral Home, 1906 Pine, and from 9:30 a.m. until service time on Wednesday at the church. Memorials are suggested to the Solomon Valley Manor, in care of the funeral home. Condolences may be left for the family at www.haysmemorial.com.