Tahlequah Daily Press

Obituaries

February 12, 2008

Jack Lesley Barnhart Jr.

PEGGS – Services for Jack Lesley Barnhart Jr., 58, of Tahlequah, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, at the Peggs Community Church. Officiating will be Rev. Rex Hendrickson and Rev. Mike Parrish.

Serving as pallbearers will be Christopher Barnhart, Casey Barnhart, Troy McClure, Bryan Morgan, Carl Wallace, Gary Nottingham, James Kelley and Luke Williams. Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Tyler Delmedico, Brandon Medlin and Dennis Morgan. Interment will follow in the New Home Cemetery under the care of Green Country Funeral Home.

Jack was born July 8, 1949, in Tahlequah, the son of Jack Sr. and Ruth Herman Barnhart. He passed from this life on Feb. 9, 2008, in Tulsa.

Jack was raised in the Tahlequah and Tulsa areas, where he did carpentry work. He began dating Jackie Medlin when she was 14 and he 16, and they married at the Double Springs Church of God on March 15, 1968.

He had several occupations during his lifetime, which included carpentry work, being in the automotive industry as a parts and service manager, working as a supply clerk for Tahlequah City Hospital, driving a truck, before retiring from NSU where he performed custodial services. He enjoyed his children and grandchildren. He was a member of the Peggs Community Church.

He is preceded in death by a grandson, Dustin K. Rhodes, his parents, and two infant brothers, Ricky and Cliffy.

Cherishing his memory are his wife Jackie of the home; two daughters, Christa Rhodes and husband, Mike, of Peggs, and Sheila Robertson and husband, David, of Stilwell; two grandsons, James Kelley and Gunter Rhodes; brothers, Gerald Barnhart and wife, Linda, of Tahlequah, and Brice Barnhart and wife, Guadalupe, of Tahlequah; a sister, Virginia Shed and her husband, Joe, of Overland Park, Kan.; and a host of other relatives and friends too numerous to mention.

Green Country Funeral Home, 203 S. Commercial Road, 458-5055.

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