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Christina Elizabeth Barnes
Posted 12/3/06
Christina Elizabeth (Dierker) Barnes, 91 CHESTERTOWN, Md. - Christina Elizabeth (Dierker) Barnes of Chestertown died Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006, in Chester River Hospital Center, Chestertown. She was …
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Christina Elizabeth Barnes
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Christina Elizabeth (Dierker) Barnes, 91
CHESTERTOWN, Md. - Christina Elizabeth (Dierker) Barnes of Chestertown died Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006, in Chester River Hospital Center, Chestertown. She was 91.
Mrs. Barnes was born Oct. 7, 1915, in Kent County, daughter of the late John Richard and Edna Lillian (Gears) Dierker.
She was a 1932 graduate of Chestertown High School and attended the University of Maryland for two years.
Mrs. Barnes worked at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, as an accountant in the payroll department until she retired in 1972. She moved back to Kent County in April 1972.
She loved arts and crafts.
Mrs. Barnes was a member of the Rock Hall Homemakers, Catalian Club, Kent County Chapter of the American Heart Association and Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, and collected for the Blood Bank for many years.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Garrett Fletcher DeVed Jr., whom she had married March 19, 1936; and a daughter, Carolyn (DeVed) Fisher.
She is survived by her second husband, LeRoy Lee Barnes, whom she married in 1971; a son and a daughter-in-law, Richard and Gail DeVed of Bay Point, Fla.; a sister, Edna Hubbard Sutton of Rock Hall; two brothers, John R. Dierker Jr. of Rock Hall and Frank Dierker of Chestertown; three grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Services will be 11 a.m. Monday in Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam Funeral Home, 130 Speer Road, Chestertown, where friends may call one hour earlier.
Burial will be 2 p.m. Monday in Louden Park Cemetery, Baltimore.
Instead of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, PO Box 626, Rock Hall, MD 21661; or to the Rock Hall Volunteer Fire Co., PO 577, Rock Hall, MD 21661.
CHESTERTOWN, Md. - Christina Elizabeth (Dierker) Barnes of Chestertown died Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006, in Chester River Hospital Center, Chestertown. She was 91.
Mrs. Barnes was born Oct. 7, 1915, in Kent County, daughter of the late John Richard and Edna Lillian (Gears) Dierker.
She was a 1932 graduate of Chestertown High School and attended the University of Maryland for two years.
Mrs. Barnes worked at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, as an accountant in the payroll department until she retired in 1972. She moved back to Kent County in April 1972.
She loved arts and crafts.
Mrs. Barnes was a member of the Rock Hall Homemakers, Catalian Club, Kent County Chapter of the American Heart Association and Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, and collected for the Blood Bank for many years.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Garrett Fletcher DeVed Jr., whom she had married March 19, 1936; and a daughter, Carolyn (DeVed) Fisher.
She is survived by her second husband, LeRoy Lee Barnes, whom she married in 1971; a son and a daughter-in-law, Richard and Gail DeVed of Bay Point, Fla.; a sister, Edna Hubbard Sutton of Rock Hall; two brothers, John R. Dierker Jr. of Rock Hall and Frank Dierker of Chestertown; three grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Services will be 11 a.m. Monday in Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam Funeral Home, 130 Speer Road, Chestertown, where friends may call one hour earlier.
Burial will be 2 p.m. Monday in Louden Park Cemetery, Baltimore.
Instead of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, PO Box 626, Rock Hall, MD 21661; or to the Rock Hall Volunteer Fire Co., PO 577, Rock Hall, MD 21661.
