Nellie L. Straw Barnes, graduated from Wheaton College in 1908 with a
B.A. in English. Other studies during the period 1899-1908 included
Prep-Scientific, Conservatory, Music and Art. She was born in Wheaton,
Illinois on April 24, 1886 to Isabel and Darien Austin Straw, long-time
Wheaton College professor. She married Guy L. Barnes in Wheaton on
November 10, 1917 and shared in his school and church life for the next
50 years. She taught school for many years at Edgeley, ND; LeMoyne
Normal, Memphis, TN; and Billings Polytechnic. She attended University
Congregational Church, where her late husband, Rev. Guy L. Barnes (d.
12/10/1967), served as pastor from 1943-1959. She died on April 4, 1985
in Missoula, Montana and was survived by a son, daughter, sister, six
grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. |
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