Daughter of Dudley and Louise Williston. Wife of Joseph Walker Barr.
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Indianapolis Star
14 February 2009
Barr, Beth A.
Beth Ann Barr 91, died peacefully attended by her family at her home in Hume, Virginia, on February 11, 2009, of pneumonia and congestive heart failure. She was born in Muncie, Indiana, on March 9, 1917. She attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where she pledged Kappa Kappa Gamma. She graduated with a B.A degree in 1938 and married Joseph W. Barr on September 3, 1939. Beth Ann developed a lifelong love of horses as a teenager when she rode and showed saddlebreds. After she married, she continued to show in Indiana and Kentucky. In the early 1950s, she became interested in foxhunting and rode to the hounds with the Traders Point Hunt. Later she hunted in Maryland with the Potomac Hunt and in Virginia with the Old Dominion Hounds. While raising five children in Indianapolis, she was active in the Junior League. She also founded and taught in a preschool that she operated out of a cottage on the property. After Mr. Barr was elected to Congress in 1958, they moved the family to Potomac, Maryland. He later became chairman of the F.D.I.C. and Secretary of the Treasury. Mrs. Barr wrote a column for the Indianapolis Star about a family camping trip from Potomac to the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Preceded in death by her husband in February of 1996, she is survived by her five children, Bonnie Gilliom of Chapel Hill, NC, Cherry Barr of Barnesville, MD, Jay Barr of Bluffton, SC, Elizabeth Stone of Hume, VA, and Lynn Barr of Milan, MI, as well as fifteen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. All will miss her deeply for her example of courage, wit, dignity, generosity, and devotion to family. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the S.P.C.A., P.O. Box 733, Warrenton, VA 20188 or Leeds Church, 4332 Leeds Manor Rd., Markham, Virginia.
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Indianapolis Star
14 February 2009
Barr, Beth A.
Beth Ann Barr 91, died peacefully attended by her family at her home in Hume, Virginia, on February 11, 2009, of pneumonia and congestive heart failure. She was born in Muncie, Indiana, on March 9, 1917. She attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where she pledged Kappa Kappa Gamma. She graduated with a B.A degree in 1938 and married Joseph W. Barr on September 3, 1939. Beth Ann developed a lifelong love of horses as a teenager when she rode and showed saddlebreds. After she married, she continued to show in Indiana and Kentucky. In the early 1950s, she became interested in foxhunting and rode to the hounds with the Traders Point Hunt. Later she hunted in Maryland with the Potomac Hunt and in Virginia with the Old Dominion Hounds. While raising five children in Indianapolis, she was active in the Junior League. She also founded and taught in a preschool that she operated out of a cottage on the property. After Mr. Barr was elected to Congress in 1958, they moved the family to Potomac, Maryland. He later became chairman of the F.D.I.C. and Secretary of the Treasury. Mrs. Barr wrote a column for the Indianapolis Star about a family camping trip from Potomac to the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Preceded in death by her husband in February of 1996, she is survived by her five children, Bonnie Gilliom of Chapel Hill, NC, Cherry Barr of Barnesville, MD, Jay Barr of Bluffton, SC, Elizabeth Stone of Hume, VA, and Lynn Barr of Milan, MI, as well as fifteen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. All will miss her deeply for her example of courage, wit, dignity, generosity, and devotion to family. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the S.P.C.A., P.O. Box 733, Warrenton, VA 20188 or Leeds Church, 4332 Leeds Manor Rd., Markham, Virginia.
Daughter of Dudley and Louise Williston. Wife of Joseph Walker Barr.
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Indianapolis Star
14 February 2009
Barr, Beth A.
Beth Ann Barr 91, died peacefully attended by her family at her home in Hume, Virginia, on February 11, 2009, of pneumonia and congestive heart failure. She was born in Muncie, Indiana, on March 9, 1917. She attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where she pledged Kappa Kappa Gamma. She graduated with a B.A degree in 1938 and married Joseph W. Barr on September 3, 1939. Beth Ann developed a lifelong love of horses as a teenager when she rode and showed saddlebreds. After she married, she continued to show in Indiana and Kentucky. In the early 1950s, she became interested in foxhunting and rode to the hounds with the Traders Point Hunt. Later she hunted in Maryland with the Potomac Hunt and in Virginia with the Old Dominion Hounds. While raising five children in Indianapolis, she was active in the Junior League. She also founded and taught in a preschool that she operated out of a cottage on the property. After Mr. Barr was elected to Congress in 1958, they moved the family to Potomac, Maryland. He later became chairman of the F.D.I.C. and Secretary of the Treasury. Mrs. Barr wrote a column for the Indianapolis Star about a family camping trip from Potomac to the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Preceded in death by her husband in February of 1996, she is survived by her five children, Bonnie Gilliom of Chapel Hill, NC, Cherry Barr of Barnesville, MD, Jay Barr of Bluffton, SC, Elizabeth Stone of Hume, VA, and Lynn Barr of Milan, MI, as well as fifteen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. All will miss her deeply for her example of courage, wit, dignity, generosity, and devotion to family. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the S.P.C.A., P.O. Box 733, Warrenton, VA 20188 or Leeds Church, 4332 Leeds Manor Rd., Markham, Virginia.
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Indianapolis Star
14 February 2009
Barr, Beth A.
Beth Ann Barr 91, died peacefully attended by her family at her home in Hume, Virginia, on February 11, 2009, of pneumonia and congestive heart failure. She was born in Muncie, Indiana, on March 9, 1917. She attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where she pledged Kappa Kappa Gamma. She graduated with a B.A degree in 1938 and married Joseph W. Barr on September 3, 1939. Beth Ann developed a lifelong love of horses as a teenager when she rode and showed saddlebreds. After she married, she continued to show in Indiana and Kentucky. In the early 1950s, she became interested in foxhunting and rode to the hounds with the Traders Point Hunt. Later she hunted in Maryland with the Potomac Hunt and in Virginia with the Old Dominion Hounds. While raising five children in Indianapolis, she was active in the Junior League. She also founded and taught in a preschool that she operated out of a cottage on the property. After Mr. Barr was elected to Congress in 1958, they moved the family to Potomac, Maryland. He later became chairman of the F.D.I.C. and Secretary of the Treasury. Mrs. Barr wrote a column for the Indianapolis Star about a family camping trip from Potomac to the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Preceded in death by her husband in February of 1996, she is survived by her five children, Bonnie Gilliom of Chapel Hill, NC, Cherry Barr of Barnesville, MD, Jay Barr of Bluffton, SC, Elizabeth Stone of Hume, VA, and Lynn Barr of Milan, MI, as well as fifteen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. All will miss her deeply for her example of courage, wit, dignity, generosity, and devotion to family. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the S.P.C.A., P.O. Box 733, Warrenton, VA 20188 or Leeds Church, 4332 Leeds Manor Rd., Markham, Virginia.
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