Nancy LeeBarnes

Nancy Lee Barnes

Nancy Lee Barnes, 86 of Greenville, died Monday, April 11, 2011, at Briarcliff Health Center.  Funeral services will be 2:00 PM, Wednesday, April 13, 2011, in Coker-Mathews Funeral Home Chapel with Randy Daw officiating.  Burial will be in Memoryland Memorial Park.  Visitation will be Tuesday, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the funeral home.

Mrs. Barnes was born in Paris, Texas on January 15, 1925.  She was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin Riggan and Ester Izora Baughman Riggan.  She married Ralph H. Barnes on August 10, 1941, in Commerce.  They moved to Greenville in 1975.  She was a former bank teller and worked for Skibells in Greenville before her retirement.  Mrs. Barnes was a member of the Johnson Street Church of Christ.  Her love of oil painting, needle work, gardening, canning and cooking was well known.

She is survived by her son, Mike Barnes and his wife, Barbara of Kerrville; daughter, Carolyn McCullough and her husband, Larry of Greenville; sisters, Catherine Penn of Mesquite and LaVernne Schell of Austin; grandchildren, Leah McQueen and husband Marc of Midland, Scott McCullough and wife, Lori of Greenville and Jason Lee and wife, Loreal of George West, Texas;  great-grandchildren, Lainey, Libby and Will McCullough of Greenville, Nate and Graden McQueen of Midland and Riley Lee of George West.  She was preceded in death by her husband; granddaughter, Elaine McCullough; brother, Ben Riggan; and sisters, Jean Braddock and Eleanor Wahl.

Pallbearers will be Mark Wilhelm, Lynn Hudson, Farrell Nalls, Art Burns, Sandy Cunningham and Glen Little.  Honorary pallbearers will be R. C. Burgin, Steve Pryce, Wayne Wallace and Jim Hodo.