THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, January 8, 1995 TAG: 9501080014
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B6 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH LENGTH: Short : 39 lines
Martha B. Barnes, 83, of the 800 block of Queen Elizabeth Drive, died Jan. 2, 1995 in Virginia Beach General Hospital. Mrs. Barnes was born in Anderson, S.C., and was the daughter of Benjamin Bell Bleckley and Sara Osborne Bleckley. She was the widow of James Frederick Barnes.
Mrs. Barnes was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and United Daughters of the Confederacy. She was a Red Cross volunteer during WWII. She played organ, sang in the choir, and taught Sunday school as a young adult at St. Johns United Methodist Church in Anderson, S.C. She was a graduate of Columbia College, Columbia, South Carolina and later owned and operated the Martha Barnes Gift Shop in the Clemson House on the campus of Clemson University from the mid-1950s to the early '80s. She volunteered at the Calhoun Mansion and the Hanover House in Clemson, S.C. and at the Frances Land House and the Virginia Beach Life-Saving Museum in Virginia Beach.
Mrs. Barnes was a member of Virginia Beach United Methodist Church, where she attended the X-Y-Z Club (X-tra Years of Zest) and the Gloria Keamer Circle.
Survivors include her daughter Martha Jo Wilson; grandson, Scott Wilson and his wife Alison of Chesapeake; grandson, Cret Wilson of Washington, D.C.; granddaughters, Beth Wilson of Atlanta, Ga., and Lisa Wilson of Virginia Beach; great-granddaughters, Morgan Wilson and Katie Wilson of Chesapeake; nephew, Benjamin Bell Bleckley III and his wife Julia of Morganton, N.C.; and niece Jo Williams and her husband Allison Williams of Atlanta, Ga.
A memorial service will be held at Virginia Beach United Methodist Church at a date to be announced. Funeral services will be held at the Sullivan-King Mortuary in Anderson, S.C. on Jan. 14, 1995.
Local arrangements made by Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home Lynnhaven Chapel.
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