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On May 27, 1939, she was united in marriage to Oliver E. Barnard in Elston.
Mrs. Barnard attended a one-room elementary school and graduated from Jefferson City High School in 1936. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education from Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, and a Master of Arts in language arts from Webster University, St. Louis.
She was a schoolteacher for 40 years and worked with special reading classes and the mentally handicapped in rural Jefferson City, Kirksville, Union and the Parkway School District in St. Louis.
She taught at Sunday school, Girl Scouts and the 4-H Club. She was a member of North Nixa Baptist Church.
Mrs. Barnard was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Erman and Wesley Schneider; and two sisters, Lillie Laura Schneider and Emaline Scheperle.
She is survived by her husband; one son, James O. Barnard and wife Debra, Columbia; three daughters, Janet Elmore and husband Stanley, Columbia, Dr. Marilyn Escobedo and husband Samuel, Oklahoma City, Okla., and Susan Ford and husband James, Prosper, Texas; two brothers, LeRoy Schneider and wife Margie, California, Mo., and Henry V. Schneider and wife Shirley, Santa Ana, Calif.; one sister, Mabel Thompson, Lohman; nine grandchildren, Andrew Elmore and wife Janelle and Mary Barnard, all of Columbia, Rachel Bryan and husband Cory, St. Peters, Brook Caballo and husband Manuel, Middlebury, Vt., Travis Escobedo, New York, N.Y., Dawn Lee and husband Shawn, Nanchang, China, Daniel Barnard and wife Oszlem, Amman, Jordan, and Jessica and Hannah Ford, both of Prosper, Texas; seven great-grandchildren, Benjamin and Nathan Elmore, Kyra Barnard, Klye and Rebecca Bryan, Thomas Lee and Jonathan Barnard; nieces; nephews; other relatives and many friends.
Funeral services were held Friday, March 6, at Houser-Millard Funeral Home, Jefferson City, with the Rev. Roger Barnard officiating.
Interment was in Riverview Cemetery, Jefferson City.
Memorials to The Baptist Home, Ozark, are preferred.
The family was served by Houser-Millard Funeral Home, Jefferson City.
