Leatha Jeanne Barnes
Nov. 23, 1899-Nov. 25, 1978
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Monday, November 27, 1978, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
NILES—Word has been received here of the death at 8:30 p.m. Saturday of Leatha Jeanne Barnes, 79, of 1557 Whitehall Road, Muskegon, following an extended illness.
She was born Nov. 23, 1899 in Niles and lived in Niles until 1963. On Jan. 21, 1917 in Dowagiac, she married Erie Barnes, who died in 1963.
Survivors include a son Richard H. of Lansing; three daughters, Miss Pauline Barnes of Seattle, Wash., Mrs. Russell (Kathryn ) Poling of Marion, Ind., and Mrs. John (Virginia) Staal of Muskegon; and four grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Halbritter Funeral Home with the Rev. Ray C. Cunningham of the First Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.
Friends are calling at the Halbritter Funeral Home.