Extracted from The Panola Watchman (Carthage, TX)
Sunday, March 26, 1995

SYBIL SPRADLEY BARNETT
1919-1995

Funeral services for Mrs. Sybil Spradley Barnett, 76, of Carthage were held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 25, 1995 at Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel in Carthage. The Rev. Steve Vaughn officiated. Interment followed in Old Prospect Cemetery in Panola County. Mrs. Barnett died Thursday, March 23 at Panola General Hospital after a lengthy illness.

Born on Jan. 12, 1919 in Panola County, she was the daughter of W.M. Horace and Edna Alice Farmer Spradley. Mrs. Barnett was a lifetime resident of the Deadwood Community and member of the New Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church in the Yarnell Community. She was married to Allen Lane Barnett who preceded her in death on Feb. 26, 1984.

Mrs. Barnett is survived by her three sons, Wayne Bagley and wife, Linda, of Carthage, William Henry Barnett and wife, Weda, of Deadwood, and Weldon Eugene Barnett of Elysian Fields; six grandchildren; eight [step?] grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; seven step-great-grandchildren; three nephews; one niece.

Serving as pallbearers were Lynn LaGrone, Garth LaGrone, Sherman Spradley, Little Sherman Spradley, Craig Wimberly and Bob McMillan.