Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 10/26/1983

Barker, Ruby Mae (1912 - 1983)

Funeral services for Ruby Mae Barker, 71, who had been residing at the Clark County Health Care Center, Owen, were at 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 22, 1983, at Rux funeral Home, Spencer.

Mr. Barker died at the Center on Thursday morning, Oct. 20, 1983.

Rev. Douglas Groenewold officiated at the service and burial was in West Spencer Cemetery. Rux Funeral Home, Spencer, handled arrangements.

Ruby Oehler was born on July 11, 1912, at Thompson, Iowa to Ambrose and Nellie (nee Sperring) Oehler. She received her education at Thompson, Iowa and Dorchester, Wis. Schools.

She and Elmo R. Barker were married on Aug. 24, 1932, at Dorchester. They farmed in the Spencer and Unity area most of their married life.

She was a former member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Loyal.

Survivors include her husband two sons, Duane of Merrill and Larry of Wis. Rapids one daughter, Mrs. David (Donna) Schneider of Marshfield eight grandchildren three sisters, Cecilia Jacobson of Forest City, Iowa, Myrtle Miller of Forest City, Iowa, and Nellie Tischendorf of Dorchester and four brothers, Clinton Oehler of Eugene, Ore., Orville Oehler of Milwaukee, Cecil Oehler of Abbotsford and Irving Oehler of Abbotsford.

She was preceded in death by her parents two sisters and one brother.