Wanda Barker Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Wanda Faye Barker was born in Pruitt City, Oklahoma on February 18, 1927 to Ruby and Ella McClanahan. She graduated from Fox High School and she also attended Draughn’s Business College. She married Lenioel Sim Barker, Sr. on April 12, 1946 in Gainesville, Texas. They moved to Lindsay, Oklahoma in 1963 from Midwest City, Oklahoma, where Wanda had worked as a clerk at Tinker Air Force Base. After moving to Lindsay, she worked at Standridge Hardware and was a devoted homemaker. Wanda loved to work in the yard, flower beds and garden. She loved birds and raised peacocks and chickens. But her foremost interest was her church work. She was a very dedicated member of the First Baptist Church in Lindsay. Wanda was a member of the W.M.U., worked as director for several different Sunday School Departments, was the 6th Grade Girls Sunday School teacher as well as working as VBS director for many years and Children’s Camp Director and Cook. When she was a teacher and director, she called every member every Saturday evening, and she always made up food baskets for those in her children’s class or department that she knew were struggling. She was chairman of the church’s Kitchen Committee and was in charge of the Noon-Day lunch for Junior High and High School. In addition she served on several other committees including the Benevolence, Pulpit and Baptismal committees. She did all of this and still found time to sing in the choir and the Singing Senior Choir as well as take care of the church’s flower beds. Wanda’s was a kind, loving and giving person with a humble spirit. She led by example, and her family says she would not be happy with them for telling all of her works, but to them, these works are the testimonies of her love for the Lord. Wanda left this life and went home to be with her Lord on Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at the age of 89. Her family, community and her church will greatly miss her. Wanda is survived by her son, Bobby Glenn Barker, two daughters, Eileen Simonton and husband Danny and Beverly Barker, four grandchildren: Clint, Quinn and Justin Simonton and Sim Barker, nine great-grandchildren: Charley, Owen, Kuper, Henry, Maxon and Hutch Simonton and Baylee, Beckham and Liam Barker and one daughter-in-law, Paula Barker. Wanda was preceded in death by her husband, Lenioel Sim Barker, Sr., one son, Lenioel Sim Barker, Jr., her parents, Ruby and Ella McClanahan, two brothers, Wayne and Bill McClanahan and one daughter-in-law, Nancy Barker. Funeral services for Mrs. Barker are set for ten o’clock a.m. on Friday, August 19, 2016 at the First Baptist Church, located at 401 S.W. 3rd Street in Lindsay, Oklahoma with Bev Barker and Pastor Randy Allen officiating. Interment will follow at Green Hill Cemetery in Lindsay. Services are under the direction of B. G. Boydston Funeral Home of Lindsay, Oklahoma Condolences may be made to the family online at www.boydstonfuneralhome.com.

Wanda Barker

February 18, 1927 - August 16, 2016