Willard Twain Barnes, 46

A factory worker and a member of Mason Lodge 125 and Mt. Hope the Baptist Church, he was preceded in death by father, A.B. Barnes; grandfather, Grove Barnes; grandfather, John Taylor Russell; grandmother, Mary Emma Barnes; and grandmother, Maggie Ella Russell.

He is survived by his mother, Anna Ruth Barnes; daughter, Ashley Chantel Barnes of Illinois; brother, Ernest Leverne Barnes of McMinnville; sister, Carolyn J. Rankhorn of McMinnville; nephews, Johnathan S. Barnes of McMinnville; and special friends Phyllis Snider, Don Austin and Johnny Snider, all of McMinnville, Andy Estes and Rita Martin, both of Smithville.

Services were held March 21 at Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home with Tim Bennett officiating. Burial followed at Jefferson Cemetery in DeKalb County.

Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) April 5, 2006