David Manuel Barnhart
Tahlequah, OK- Graveside services for David Manuel Barnhart will be
conducted Thursday, October 10th, 2019 at 1:00 PM at Ft. Gibson National
Cemetery with US Army Honors. Online condolences for his family may be
left at www.reedculver.com.
David Manuel Barnhart was born on Sunday, December 19th, 1948 in
Walseka, IL, the son of Raymond Heston and Lillie Elizabeth (Nottingham)
Barnhart. He was raised with one brother, Raymond, affectionately
called Jody and one sister, Mary Jane. He attended school in Tulsa and
would later finish his schooling at Will Rogers in Tulsa. In 1969, he
was enlisted into the US Army, serving in Battery B, where he attained
his Architectural Drafting Degree in 1970 from Ft. Bragg in North
Carolina. He was Honorably Discharged in March 2nd, 1971 and remained in
the reserves until 1975. He then returned to the Tulsa area where he
began his career working McDonald-Douglas and Rockwell International and
retired from Nordam as an aircraft painter. He was always ready to have
a little time off, and spend his free time outdoors, hunting and
fishing. He possessed a great deal of artistic talent, he played guitar ,
singing karaoke was favorite pastime, liked to draw, could take a piece
of wood and turn it into a masterpiece, was a self taught carpenter,
and performed drafting arts in the Army. He was happy with his family
and friends, he liked shooting pool, throwing darts and getting together
to share a story or two about the good ole days, running around with
his cousins .He could curl up on the couch and play video games. There
was this dry sense of humor that made you laugh, and then there was the
stubborn streak, he was going to discuss and debate with you , until you
saw his side of the story. He was most of all, a proud father of three
children, Linda, David Colton and Bethany. There was nothing more
special to David then his children and their accomplishments. He was
their biggest fan. He was a Christian by faith and attended the
Pentecostal Holiness Church of Peggs, being baptized in 1991. His
health began to fail him and the Lord called this gifted man home from
his labors on Saturday, October 5th, 2019 in Tahlequah, OK. He was 70
years old and he will be greatly missed.
He is preceded in death by his mother and father, his grandparents,
David and Nancy Nottingham and Wiley Barnhart and Ethel (Cradduck)
Barnhart, his sister and her husband, Mary Jane Goad and husband
Michael, their son, Michael Ray Goad, sister-in-law. Barbara Barnhart,
and his first wife, Katherin Boatright-Allred, whom he married in 1968,
and she preceded him in 2017.
Those left to cherish his memory include his children, Linda Edwards
and Charles Miller of Broken Arrow, OK, Colton Barnhart and Amber Martin
of Oklahoma City, OK, and Bethany Barnhart of Tahlequah, OK. He leaves
his second wife, Charlene Lillard-Craig whom he married n 1975, and the
mother of Colton and Bethany, Sherry Evon Rowe-Barnhart, whom he married
in Miami, OK in 1987. There is one brother, Raymond “Jody” Joseph
Barnhart of Locust Grove, OK. David lives on in his two grandchildren,
Wesley Miller and Briar Edwards, both of Broken Arrow, OK, as well as
many nieces, nephews, cousins and a host of friends and loved ones too
numerous to mention.
10
Graveside Service
1:00 pm
Fort Gibson, OK
Reed Culver Funeral
Home
117 W. Delaware
Dr.
Tahlequah, OK
74464
P: (918)
456-2551
F: (918)
456-0533
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