Funeral services for Mary Evelyn Stewart Barnes, age 72 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday, October 2, 2015, at First Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Tennessee at 3:00 o’clock in the afternoon with Rev. Van Johnson and Chris Barnes officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Barnes passed away Monday September 28, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
Mary Evelyn was a native of Lincoln County and the daughter of the late Pangle and Evelyn Chest Stewart. She was a school teacher, a homemaker and worked as Director of the F.A.S.T. Program at Ralph Askins School for sixteen years. She was a Sunday School teacher and member of the Fayetteville First Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband Larry Wayne Barnes of Fayetteville, daughter Mary Angela Barnes of Franklin, son Christopher Stewart (Brandi) Barnes of Kelso, daughter Amy Marie (Steve) Arrick of St. Charles, IL, grandchildren Anna Marie Arrick, Elizabeth Gale Barnes, Ronald Samuel Arrick, Molly Christin Barnes, Stewart Ward Barnes, Andrew James Arrick and sister Wanda Spray of Fayetteville.
Visitation with the family will be Thursday evening October 1, 2015, from 5:00 until 8:00 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Fayetteville, TN.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Fayetteville-Lincoln County Library.
Higgins Funeral Home is assisting the family of Mary Evelyn Barnes.
“Mary Evelyn was an avid reader, a terrific gardener who loved flowers and a wonderful, caring, compassionate and gentle lady. A faithful, loving wife of 50 years, she has left a hole in my heart that can never be filled.” Larry W. Barnes
