Extracted from The Frederick News-Post (Frederick, MS)
Mrs. Celeste Shoemaker Barnes
Celeste Shoemaker Barnes, 87, of Winfield, died Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009, at Carroll Hospice, Inc.-Dove House, Westminster.
Born Aug. 22, 1921 in Louin, Miss., she was the daughter of the late Walter Henry Shoemaker and the late Lillie Mae Read Shoemaker. She was the wife of the late Carlton R. Barnes, who died April 8, 1994. She was the eldest of nine children, four sisters survive.
Mrs. Barnes was a 1946 graduate of Mississippi State College for Women, where she met her husband while he was stationed at Camp Shelby at the end of World War II. She moved to Maryland and taught at Sykesville High School. They married Dec. 20, 1946. She later worked as a social worker at Springfield State Hospital, retiring in 1984.
Mrs. Barnes was a member of Taylorsville United Methodist Church, life member of Carroll County Historical Society, and life member of Winfield Ladies Auxiliary, and Carroll County Homemakers Club. Also, she went on several of the homemakers club's world travel trips. Her main interest was sewing for herself and others, reading novels, and traveling the world.
She is survived by her children, Wanda and David Hall of Joppa and Wilma and Howard Poole of Boydton, Va.; grandchildren, R. Warren and Penepi Brown of Winfield, Wendy Millender and husband, Charles, of Manchester, Michael Hall of Baltimore, Michelle Hall of New York and Christie Poole; and eight great-grandchildren; sisters, Hope Ulmer of Bay Springs, Miss., Myra Kincaide of Dillon, Colo.; Delores Shoemaker of Los Angeles, Calif. and Rachel Prislovsky of Memphis, Tenn.
She was predeceased by son, Charles Ray Barnes on Nov. 14, 1973; brothers, Gerald Shoemaker, Dr. Joseph Shoemaker, Marvin Shoemaker; and sister, Laura Shoemaker.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, at Taylorsville U.M.C., 4356 Ridge Road, Mount Airy. Rev. Sarah B. Dorrance will officiate.
Interment will be held in Taylorsville U.M.C. Cemetery, Taylorsville.
Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16, at Burrier-Queen Funeral Home and Crematory, P.A., 1212 W. Old Liberty Road, Winfield. Winfield Volunteer Fire Co. Ladies Auxiliary will hold a service at 7:30 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to Taylorsville U.M. Church, 4356 Ridge Road, Mount Airy, MD 21771; or the American Diabetic Association, Maryland Office, 800 Wyman Park Dr., 1st Floor, Baltimore, MD 21211.
Online condolences can be made to Burrier-Queen.com.
Monday, February 16, 2009