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Wilma Pearl Eaton Barnes

14 May 1899 – 1 Mar 1994

Birth	14 May 1899
Death	1 Mar 1994
Cemetery	Laurel Land Memorial Park Fort Worth , Tarrant County , Texas , USA
Added by	Sonja Brumley Vaughn on 10 Oct 2011
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78043463

Bio

FORT WORTH - Wilma Barnes, who owned and operated a number of neighborhood department stores with her late husband, died of complications of cancer Tuesday at a Fort Worth nursing home. She was 94. Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Laurel Land Funeral Home in Fort Worth. Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park. The family will receive visitors from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home. Mrs. Barnes and her husband, Roy Barnes, opened the first neighborhood department store, Roy Barnes and Son, in Ridglea on Camp Bowie Boulevard in 1949. They also owned other stores in Weatherford and Cleburne. Roy Barnes died in 1963. Survivors: Daughter, Dorothy Bennett of Fort Worth; four grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) Date: March 4, 1994

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Married Dec 31, 1916

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Family

Parents

• James Fanchard Eaton 1869–1959
• Francis Ann Sullivan Eaton 1871–1957

Spouse

• Roy William Barnes 1898–1963 FaG

Siblings

• Josephine Belle Eaton Kirven 1894–1947
• Lester Raymond Eaton 1901–1968
• Anna Mae Eaton Henley 1905–1981
• James Franchard "Jack" Eaton Jr 1906–1985

Children

• Royce Woodrow Barnes 1920–1987 FaG
• Dorothy L. Barnes Bennett 1924–2007 FaG

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