Decatur Herald and Review (IL)
February 25, 1997
Page: A11

 

Barger

DECATUR -- Freda B. Barger, 82, of Decatur died 4:52 a.m. Sunday (Feb. 23, 1997) in Decatur Memorial Hospital.
Services will be noon Thursday in the First Church of the Nazarene with visitation 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in Brintlinger's Funeral Home. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery. Memorials: First Church of the Nazarene.
Mrs. Barger was born in Toledo, located in Cumberland County, the daughter of George Washington and Nellie Bader Evans. She was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene and Moose Lodge in Decatur. She was in an agricultural community for several years and a homemaker. She and her husband formerly owned and operated the Colonial Motel in Decatur and Motel Taylorville. She married Rono Willard Barger in Newman on July 8, 1944. He preceded her in death on Sept. 22, 1979.
Surviving are her sons, Leroy and wife Sue of Decatur; Les of Florida, formerly of Decatur; brother, Rono Evans of Charleston; grandchildren, Brian Leroy Barger and Tricia Michelle Haley; great-grandchildren, Madison Michelle and Allison MacKenzie.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and three brothers