(Taken from the Independence Daily Reporter, September 6, 2007, page 2)
ARLINGTON, TX - Thelma M. Barnes, 87, of Arlingotn, Texas, and an Elk City native, died Aug. 28 in Arlington.
Funeral service was held friday at Sullivan Funeral Home Chapel in Vernon, Texas, with Jay handley officiating. Interment was at Eastview Cemetery.
Mrs. Barnes was born Nov. 16, 1919 in Elk City, the daughter of Glenna and Chloe Agnes (Smith) Shanks. Her mother died when she was an infant and she was raised by her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Smith.
She married C.B. "Barney" Barnes on Sept. 11, 1940 in Independence. He died in 1996.
She moved to Vernon, Texas, in 1947. She was a homemaker and a member of the Wilbarger Street Church of Christ.
Mrs. Barnes is survived by two daughters, Sharon Barnes Clark, Arlington, texas, and Tammy Barnes May, Vernon, Texas; three sons, Jeff L. Barnes, Plano, Texas, Danny L. Barnes, Mesa, Ariz., and James D. Barnes, Lubbock, texas; five sisters, Margery Pickell, Fredonia, Lila Miller, Moline, Kate Rader and Gleneva Winn, both of Howard, and Donna Kaminska, Longton; two brothers, Robert Shanks, Topeka, and Jerry Shanks, Independence; 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.