Edythe May Rowe Barber

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Edythe May Rowe Barber was born June 16, 1903 in Thomas, Indian Territory to Effie Maine and James Rowe and died August 31, 1993 in the Cheyenne Convalescent Home at the age of 90.

She moved with her parents as a child to Day County and attended Pie Flat School.

She married Claude Charles Barber on November 27, 1919 in Cheyenne. They lived in the Pie Flat Community where they made their home.

She was a member of the Nazarene Church from a very young age. Her grandmother Thomas was an early day Nazarene preacher.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two daughters, Opal Boyd and Wanda Hardin; one sister, Thelma Calhoun and two brothers, Joy Rowe and Ernest Rowe.

Services will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday, September 4, 1993 at the Magnolia Baptist Church officiated by Blaine Barber, and assisted by A. L. Martin. Interment will be in the Pie Flat Cemetery, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service.

Survivors include one son and daughter-in-law, Woodrowe and Opal Barber of Crawford; one sister, Juanita Shaw of Snyder; ten grandchildren, twenty four great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren.