by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB
Roanoke Times Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 14, 1993 TAG: 9304140300 SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO SOURCE: DATELINE: BRIDGEWATER LENGTH: Medium
OBIT FIKE, BARBARA BEACHLEY
FIKE, Barbara Beachley, 97, of 302 N. Second St., Bridgewater, Va., died Friday, April 9, 1993, in the Bridgewater Home where she had been a resident since 1983. On April 1, 1896, Mrs. Fike was born in Spring Creek, Va., to the late Aaron Saylor and Barbara Virginia Miller Ringgold. She was a member of the Bridgewater Church of the Brethren. Mrs. Fike attended James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va., and Bethany Bible College, Chicago, Ill., where she met her late husband, the Rev. Oscar Ray Fike, who died March 31, 1977. They were married on September 16, 1926. Mrs. Fike and her late husband pastored churches for thirty-seven years in Kansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Virginia. They were in Roanoke, Va. area churches from 1940 to 1954; then in Elkhart, Ind., from 1954 to 1962 where they pastored the Yellow Creek Church of the Brethren. They retired in Bridgewater, Virginia in 1968. She is survived by one son Herschel Fike of Rocky Mount, Va.; two daughters, Sarah Pletcher of Elkhart, Ind., and Lois Sherman of Fort Wayne, Ind. Surviving, in addition to her children, are eleven grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. She was the last of her immediate family of ten children. A funeral service will be conducted Wednesday, April 14, 1993, at 11 a.m. in the Bridgewater Home Chapel. The Rev. Robert Alley will officiate. Burial will follow in the Beaver Creek Church of the Brethren Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Tuesday at the Johnson Funeral Service, Bridgewater, between the hours of 7 to 9 p.m. and in the foyer of the Bridgewater Home Chapel on Wednesday morning from 10 to 11 a.m. Memorial contributions may be sent to the Bridgewater Home, 302 N. Second St., Bridgewater, Va. 22812 or to the Bridgewater Church of the Brethren, 400 E. College St., Bridgewater, Va. 22812.