Wilma Barbour

Wilma was born June 3, 1928 in Ava, MO to Mackey and Velvie Forrest. She married Lee Roy Barbour in 1946. They met at the Oklahoma BBQ and dance hall, which was later named the Knotty Pine BBQ on Charles Page Blvd. Together they had five children. In 1949, they had a baby girl, Pamela Ann Barbour, and again a girl in 1952, Susan Diane Barbour. In 1956 came Randall Leroy Barbour, their first son, who died from spinal meningitis at the age of 20 months. It was hard to overcome the loss of a child, but God blessed them in 1958 with the birth of another son, Wendell Steven Barbour, and then another son again in 1961 with Ronald Leroy Barbour. Wilma and Lee Roy later divorced, and she began to raise her children on her own. She loved the Lord and taught her children and grandchildren about the Lord. She was a Sunday School teacher and used flannel graff stories to reach out to little children. She loved to write poems and created her own notebook full of poems that she had written. Growing up as young adults, her children could always find a good home-cooked meal on Sundays after church. Her children began to marry and go their own way and have children of their own. Still she was always there to babysit or tend to you if you were sick. She began to have some heart problems that slowed her down but was always there to lend a helping hand in any way that she could. In her illness as life seemed to wither her away, her son Ronald stayed by her side and tended to her because she wanted to stay in her home rather than go to a nursing home. Her life may not seem all that exciting to most, but she felt blessed by her children and grandchildren. Her only prayer would be that they would be prosperous in life and love the Lord. Wilma is preceded in death by her father, Mackey Forrest; her mother, Velvie Applegarth; her brothers, Lee Forrest and Jimmy Michael Forrest; a sister, Betty Jean Carr; and her son, Randall Leroy Barbour. She is survived by three sisters, Thelma Clingings, Velma Dobbs, and Margie Bettis; her children, Pamela Ann Brence, Susan Diane Clark, Wendell Steven Barbour and Ronald Leroy Barbour; nine grandchildren, Danny Edwards, Jr., Lori Lynn Goodnight, Bradley Martin Edwards, Jennalea Brence, Robert Clayton Vandiver, Christin Moyes, Justin Barbour, Clayton Barbour, and Trestin Barbour; eleven great-grandchildren, Amanda Edwards, Beverly Smallwood, Chelsie Goodnight, Danielle Goodnight, Lacey Edwards, Jordan Edwards, Nicholas Edwards, Arron Edwards, Brady Vandiver, Blake Vandiver, and Jonnathan Moyes; eight great-great-grandchildren, Bela Shi Bailey, Juniper Long, Annily Smallwood, Jenson Goodnight, Ryker Houtman, Vanessa Alvarado, Natalie Edwards, Nadia Edwards; and last but not least, the ninth soon to be great-great-grandchild, Trace Smallwood. Rest in peace, dear MOTHER; you have not been forgotten. You have sown the seeds of Love. The Lord lives in all of us, because you taught us his WORD. Service will be 11:00 A.M., Thursday, July 23, 2015 at Moore's Southlawn Chapel, 9350 E. 51st, Tulsa, OK. Moore's Southlawn 918-663-2233

Wilma Barbour

June 3, 1928 - July 20, 2015