Barnette, Orville Warren

Passed: 1974-02-12

Age: 92

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Obituary Date: 1974-03-29

Information: Barnette, Orville Warren   3/29/1974Orville Warren Barnette, 92, of Clover Lick, died Tuesday, February 12, 1974 in the Pocahontas Memorial Hospital after a few days illness of pneumonia.  He was born at Rockcastle, Jackson County, November 17, 1881, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Asbury Barnette.  He was first married to Jenney Osbourne, who died in the early 1900's.  He then married Emma Poage Barnette, who died November 12, 1967.  A son, Robert and a daughter, Pearl also preceded him in death.  He was a member of the Methodist Church.  Mr. Barnette came to Pocahontas with the Henderson Lumber Company as a young man, moved to Oklahoma in 1908 and returned to the farm at Clover Lick in 1935 after the drought during the “dust bowl” condition in the midwest.  Surviving him are a daughter, Mrs. J. W. (Betsy) Shreve, of Elkins, two sons, Brooks Barnette, of Clover Lick and Norman Barnette of Waldron, Arkansas; eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; three brothers, Otho Barnette, of Fargon, Oklahoma, Arthur Barnette of Hometown and Lovell Barnette of Rockcastle; two sisters, Mrs. Lenna Cook of Euclid, Ohio and Mrs. O'Dell Stevens of Rockcastle.  Services were held Feb. 16 at the VanReenen Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. Howard McNeill with burial in the Poage Cemetery.