Beatrice Barnes
Beatrice Battles Barnes, age 92, of the Crystal Community passed away peacefully in her home on Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
Graveside service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 30, 2024, in Obion County Memorial Gardens. Her son-in-law, Greg Smith, will officiate. Friends are asked to meet at the cemetery.
White-Ranson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
She was born on May 28, 1931, to Jess and Vela Battles. She married James “Jimmy” Barnes in June of 1952 and they made their home in the Crystal Community. She was raised in town but easily transitioned to country living by canning and freezing food from their garden. Never having the opportunity to learn to cook, hers and Jimmy’s first attempt at making gravy turned into a task of cleaning it off the ceiling. walls and floor. Sewing was another of her learned skills that she truly loved.
She leaves behind Jimmy Layne Barnes of Trenton, Tennessee and DiAnne Barnes Smith (Greg) of Pleasant View, Tennessee; and sister, Donna Keown (Ira) of Texas, along with her husband of 72 years, Jimmy Barnes of the Crystal Community. Her grandchildren were loved and enjoyed by both Beatrice and Jimmy and she loved cooking and baking with them. They included Chris Barnes of Trenton, Tennessee, Ron Barnes (Nikki) of Trenton, Tennessee, Houston Smith (Chapel) of Lebanon, Tennessee, and Ryland Smith of Clarksville, Tennessee. Her great-grandchildren are Jacob McCollum of Trenton, Halee Flowers of Trenton, Jackson Barnes of Trenton, Peyton Flowers of Trenton, Caden Barnes of Trenton and Chloe Barnes of Trenton. In her later years, she avidly enjoyed quilting and left her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren forever memories with which to stay warm.
Besides her mother and father, she was preceded in death by her beloved daughter-in-law, Gretta Barnes; and sister, Jestine Stiener.
Published in The Messenger on 3.27.24