She was the executive secretary for Home Health Services of Charlotte County. Barbara was a member of San Antonio Roman Catholic Church and also worshipped with her family St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church in Port Charlotte. She was the granddaughter of the late Peter F. Stakem and Bertha R. Stakem of Lonaconing. N.C. Barbara will be missed by many other relatives and co-workers. Private inurnment will be at Royal Palm Memorial Gardens.
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She passed away in the home she shared with her daughter and family in Short Gap. Mamie was also preceded in death by an infant son, Jamie Layne Kesner, and a grandson, Phillip Wayne Peer. In the early 1900's, Mamie was a minister in the Assemblies of God. She began oil painting when she was 60 and continued that for many years. At the age of 80, Mamie planted fruit trees in her yard in Short Gap, and canned fruit from those trees when she was in her 90's.