Bonnie Muller Barker 1926 – 2007
Bonnie Barker passed away quietly the morning of July 11, 2007 at Sheridan Manor. Both her daughters were at her bedside.
Born Bonnie Mae Muller on September 16, 1926 at the old Sheridan Hospital on Saberton Street to Etta Mae (Bush) and Jacob Muller, she lived most of her life in Sheridan County, and was a well – known businesswoman in Sheridan.
Jacob Muller homesteaded along Little Badger Creek, and later operated the ranch homesteaded by his mother Anna Blum Muller along Tongue River. Bonnie grew up on the Little Badger Creek place, where the Mullers raised cattle, sheep and other products for market. As a four and five year old, Bonnie watered watermelon plants by carrying water far from the creek, and tended the turkeys her father sold to Sheridan Commercial. Her brother Jimmy, who still lives in Dayton, was her only sibling.
During World War II, still in her teens, Bonnie worked at Kaiser Shipyards in San Francisco, as a sort of "Rosie the Riveter." Her job was installing refrigeration equipment in ship hulls, where her small stature allowed her to work in shafts and crawl spaces where others could not.
She returned to Sheridan to work at Montgomery Ward's, and married Phil Barker on February 11, 1946 in Billings. She and Phil and their two daughters spent weekends and holidays at the Barker Ranch in Parkman, with Ernestine and George Barker, Phil's five brothers, and everyone's children and eventually grandchildren.
Bonnie worked for a time at Sheridan Stationary, and then, with a partner, bought and operated Strehlow Office Supply downtown.
She became an agent at Brittain World Travel, and then with long-time partner Susan Davis, founded and ran a Travel Management Agency branch in Sheridan, and founded Travel Center on Brundage. Travel Center was a very successful business during the heyday of travel agencies. It operated the Trailways bus and freight business, and organized many unique tours for senior citizens groups, the Sheridan Wayfarers and others. For a time Travel Center also had a branch in Buffalo.
Bonnie took full advantage of the perks of travel agents, and traveled most of the world as part of her job. She visited all of Europe, Egypt, Israel, China, Russia, Argentina, Peru, Japan, Korea, Alaska, Hawaii, and practically every other corner of the globe, and reveled in all she learned on her frequent trips.
In addition to travel, Bonnie's other passions included riding, fishing and hunting. A favorite family photo shows the diminutive Bonnie struggling to hold aloft a 40-pound Lake Trout beside a seaplane at Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories. Known as a crack shot her whole life, she target – practiced with her favorite 30-06, and hunted deer well into her seventies.
Bonnie was preceded in death by Jacob and Etta Mae Muller, and by Phil Barker. She is survived by her brother Jimmy, her daughters Patricia Lawrence of Basin and Carol LeResche of Sheridan; grandchildren Bonnie (Lawrence) Smith of Marina del Rey, California, Raymond Lawrence of Powell, Samantha Carroll of Anchorage, Alaska, and Cameron Carroll of Fairbanks, Alaska.
Great grandchildren are Christian and Gabrielle Silco of Denver, Michael and Vanessa Lawrence of Covina, California, and Cameron, Reba and Alex Lawrence and Shane Tanner, all of Powell.
Services will be held at Champion's Funeral Home, 10 AM Saturday, July 21. Interment will follow at the Elks Cemetery in Sheridan.
Donations may be made to a favorite charity.
Bonnie Barker passed away quietly the morning of July 11, 2007 at Sheridan Manor. Both her daughters were at her bedside.
Born Bonnie Mae Muller on September 16, 1926 at the old Sheridan Hospital on Saberton Street to Etta Mae (Bush) and Jacob Muller, she lived most of her life in Sheridan County, and was a well – known businesswoman in Sheridan.
Jacob Muller homesteaded along Little Badger Creek, and later operated the ranch homesteaded by his mother Anna Blum Muller along Tongue River. Bonnie grew up on the Little Badger Creek place, where the Mullers raised cattle, sheep and other products for market. As a four and five year old, Bonnie watered watermelon plants by carrying water far from the creek, and tended the turkeys her father sold to Sheridan Commercial. Her brother Jimmy, who still lives in Dayton, was her only sibling.
During World War II, still in her teens, Bonnie worked at Kaiser Shipyards in San Francisco, as a sort of "Rosie the Riveter." Her job was installing refrigeration equipment in ship hulls, where her small stature allowed her to work in shafts and crawl spaces where others could not.
She returned to Sheridan to work at Montgomery Ward's, and married Phil Barker on February 11, 1946 in Billings. She and Phil and their two daughters spent weekends and holidays at the Barker Ranch in Parkman, with Ernestine and George Barker, Phil's five brothers, and everyone's children and eventually grandchildren.
Bonnie worked for a time at Sheridan Stationary, and then, with a partner, bought and operated Strehlow Office Supply downtown.
She became an agent at Brittain World Travel, and then with long-time partner Susan Davis, founded and ran a Travel Management Agency branch in Sheridan, and founded Travel Center on Brundage. Travel Center was a very successful business during the heyday of travel agencies. It operated the Trailways bus and freight business, and organized many unique tours for senior citizens groups, the Sheridan Wayfarers and others. For a time Travel Center also had a branch in Buffalo.
Bonnie took full advantage of the perks of travel agents, and traveled most of the world as part of her job. She visited all of Europe, Egypt, Israel, China, Russia, Argentina, Peru, Japan, Korea, Alaska, Hawaii, and practically every other corner of the globe, and reveled in all she learned on her frequent trips.
In addition to travel, Bonnie's other passions included riding, fishing and hunting. A favorite family photo shows the diminutive Bonnie struggling to hold aloft a 40-pound Lake Trout beside a seaplane at Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories. Known as a crack shot her whole life, she target – practiced with her favorite 30-06, and hunted deer well into her seventies.
Bonnie was preceded in death by Jacob and Etta Mae Muller, and by Phil Barker. She is survived by her brother Jimmy, her daughters Patricia Lawrence of Basin and Carol LeResche of Sheridan; grandchildren Bonnie (Lawrence) Smith of Marina del Rey, California, Raymond Lawrence of Powell, Samantha Carroll of Anchorage, Alaska, and Cameron Carroll of Fairbanks, Alaska.
Great grandchildren are Christian and Gabrielle Silco of Denver, Michael and Vanessa Lawrence of Covina, California, and Cameron, Reba and Alex Lawrence and Shane Tanner, all of Powell.
Services will be held at Champion's Funeral Home, 10 AM Saturday, July 21. Interment will follow at the Elks Cemetery in Sheridan.
Donations may be made to a favorite charity.
Bonnie Muller Barker 1926 – 2007
Bonnie Barker passed away quietly the morning of July 11, 2007 at Sheridan Manor. Both her daughters were at her bedside.
Born Bonnie Mae Muller on September 16, 1926 at the old Sheridan Hospital on Saberton Street to Etta Mae (Bush) and Jacob Muller, she lived most of her life in Sheridan County, and was a well – known businesswoman in Sheridan.
Jacob Muller homesteaded along Little Badger Creek, and later operated the ranch homesteaded by his mother Anna Blum Muller along Tongue River. Bonnie grew up on the Little Badger Creek place, where the Mullers raised cattle, sheep and other products for market. As a four and five year old, Bonnie watered watermelon plants by carrying water far from the creek, and tended the turkeys her father sold to Sheridan Commercial. Her brother Jimmy, who still lives in Dayton, was her only sibling.
During World War II, still in her teens, Bonnie worked at Kaiser Shipyards in San Francisco, as a sort of "Rosie the Riveter." Her job was installing refrigeration equipment in ship hulls, where her small stature allowed her to work in shafts and crawl spaces where others could not.
She returned to Sheridan to work at Montgomery Ward's, and married Phil Barker on February 11, 1946 in Billings. She and Phil and their two daughters spent weekends and holidays at the Barker Ranch in Parkman, with Ernestine and George Barker, Phil's five brothers, and everyone's children and eventually grandchildren.
Bonnie worked for a time at Sheridan Stationary, and then, with a partner, bought and operated Strehlow Office Supply downtown.
She became an agent at Brittain World Travel, and then with long-time partner Susan Davis, founded and ran a Travel Management Agency branch in Sheridan, and founded Travel Center on Brundage. Travel Center was a very successful business during the heyday of travel agencies. It operated the Trailways bus and freight business, and organized many unique tours for senior citizens groups, the Sheridan Wayfarers and others. For a time Travel Center also had a branch in Buffalo.
Bonnie took full advantage of the perks of travel agents, and traveled most of the world as part of her job. She visited all of Europe, Egypt, Israel, China, Russia, Argentina, Peru, Japan, Korea, Alaska, Hawaii, and practically every other corner of the globe, and reveled in all she learned on her frequent trips.
In addition to travel, Bonnie's other passions included riding, fishing and hunting. A favorite family photo shows the diminutive Bonnie struggling to hold aloft a 40-pound Lake Trout beside a seaplane at Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories. Known as a crack shot her whole life, she target – practiced with her favorite 30-06, and hunted deer well into her seventies.
Bonnie was preceded in death by Jacob and Etta Mae Muller, and by Phil Barker. She is survived by her brother Jimmy, her daughters Patricia Lawrence of Basin and Carol LeResche of Sheridan; grandchildren Bonnie (Lawrence) Smith of Marina del Rey, California, Raymond Lawrence of Powell, Samantha Carroll of Anchorage, Alaska, and Cameron Carroll of Fairbanks, Alaska.
Great grandchildren are Christian and Gabrielle Silco of Denver, Michael and Vanessa Lawrence of Covina, California, and Cameron, Reba and Alex Lawrence and Shane Tanner, all of Powell.
Services will be held at Champion's Funeral Home, 10 AM Saturday, July 21. Interment will follow at the Elks Cemetery in Sheridan.
Donations may be made to a favorite charity.
Bonnie Barker passed away quietly the morning of July 11, 2007 at Sheridan Manor. Both her daughters were at her bedside.
Born Bonnie Mae Muller on September 16, 1926 at the old Sheridan Hospital on Saberton Street to Etta Mae (Bush) and Jacob Muller, she lived most of her life in Sheridan County, and was a well – known businesswoman in Sheridan.
Jacob Muller homesteaded along Little Badger Creek, and later operated the ranch homesteaded by his mother Anna Blum Muller along Tongue River. Bonnie grew up on the Little Badger Creek place, where the Mullers raised cattle, sheep and other products for market. As a four and five year old, Bonnie watered watermelon plants by carrying water far from the creek, and tended the turkeys her father sold to Sheridan Commercial. Her brother Jimmy, who still lives in Dayton, was her only sibling.
During World War II, still in her teens, Bonnie worked at Kaiser Shipyards in San Francisco, as a sort of "Rosie the Riveter." Her job was installing refrigeration equipment in ship hulls, where her small stature allowed her to work in shafts and crawl spaces where others could not.
She returned to Sheridan to work at Montgomery Ward's, and married Phil Barker on February 11, 1946 in Billings. She and Phil and their two daughters spent weekends and holidays at the Barker Ranch in Parkman, with Ernestine and George Barker, Phil's five brothers, and everyone's children and eventually grandchildren.
Bonnie worked for a time at Sheridan Stationary, and then, with a partner, bought and operated Strehlow Office Supply downtown.
She became an agent at Brittain World Travel, and then with long-time partner Susan Davis, founded and ran a Travel Management Agency branch in Sheridan, and founded Travel Center on Brundage. Travel Center was a very successful business during the heyday of travel agencies. It operated the Trailways bus and freight business, and organized many unique tours for senior citizens groups, the Sheridan Wayfarers and others. For a time Travel Center also had a branch in Buffalo.
Bonnie took full advantage of the perks of travel agents, and traveled most of the world as part of her job. She visited all of Europe, Egypt, Israel, China, Russia, Argentina, Peru, Japan, Korea, Alaska, Hawaii, and practically every other corner of the globe, and reveled in all she learned on her frequent trips.
In addition to travel, Bonnie's other passions included riding, fishing and hunting. A favorite family photo shows the diminutive Bonnie struggling to hold aloft a 40-pound Lake Trout beside a seaplane at Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories. Known as a crack shot her whole life, she target – practiced with her favorite 30-06, and hunted deer well into her seventies.
Bonnie was preceded in death by Jacob and Etta Mae Muller, and by Phil Barker. She is survived by her brother Jimmy, her daughters Patricia Lawrence of Basin and Carol LeResche of Sheridan; grandchildren Bonnie (Lawrence) Smith of Marina del Rey, California, Raymond Lawrence of Powell, Samantha Carroll of Anchorage, Alaska, and Cameron Carroll of Fairbanks, Alaska.
Great grandchildren are Christian and Gabrielle Silco of Denver, Michael and Vanessa Lawrence of Covina, California, and Cameron, Reba and Alex Lawrence and Shane Tanner, all of Powell.
Services will be held at Champion's Funeral Home, 10 AM Saturday, July 21. Interment will follow at the Elks Cemetery in Sheridan.
Donations may be made to a favorite charity.
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