| Barnes, Emla Octavie Thompson 213201 |
| Birth: 02/16/1908 Death: 07/17/1997 Marriage: 08/23/1923 |
| Cemetery: Evergreen (44-77-03) |
| Record Source: The Paris News |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/16/2025) |
| Notes Next to Grady H. Barnes. Tombstone is inscribed, 'Octavie Barnes.' THE PARIS NEWS, Fri., Jul. 18, 1997, p. 5A: 'Emla Octavia Thompson Barnes, 89, of Paris died Thursday, July 17, 1997, at Paris Nursing Home. Bright-Holland Funeral Home will conduct graveside services at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 19, at Evergreen Cemetery with Dr. Sidney Young officiating. The family will receive friends from noon until 1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. She was born Feb. 16, 1908, in Pecan Gap to G.P and Mattie Gray Thompson. She married Grady H. Barnes Aug. 23, 1923, in Lamar County. He died in 1970. She was a homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church of Paris. Surviving are three daughters, Voncile Barnes Shoffeitt of Paris, Aline Talley of Dallas, and Faye Clancy of Garland; three sons, Billy Landis Barnes of Longview, Alva Glenn Barnes of Sulphur Springs and Harold Wayne Barnes of Fort Worth; 19 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be grandsons, Vernon Shoffeitt Jr., Michael Shoffeitt, Phil Salas, Steve Clancy, Jerry Barnes and Gary Barnes.' |