Obituary of Barbara Reed

Services for Barbara Newton Reed, 92, Austin, formally of Overton, will be at 2:00 pm, Wednesday, March 6, in the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home chapel, Overton with Reverend Atwell Hankins officiating. Burial will be in the Overton City Cemetery. Mrs. Reed was born April 1, 1920 to the late Hedrick Rhine and Besse Jeannette Carroll. She graduated Overton High School and married Hazel T. Reed February 1, 1938 in New London. She was a LVN and worked for Henderson Memorial Hospital. She was a member of the 1st Baptist Church, Overton and were she had been active in all the ladies groups and served as a Sunday School teacher. Besides her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husband, Hazel T. Reed, a son, Brent Newton Reed, two brothers, Joseph Lynn Newton and Kenneth Newton; two sisters, Mary Margie Lowe Rowe and Elizabeth Jane Rachell. Survivors include a son, Eric Lowman Reed, Austin; a daughter and son-in-law, Sondra Carol and Wilbert Theriot, Conroe;  two granddaughters, Carol Theriot Close and Amy Theriot Griggs; a great grandchild, Claire Close; and numerous nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Gary Rachell, Dale Rachell, Kelly Ketchum, Dicky Newton, David Newton, and Harold Jacobs. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5:00 pm until 7:00 pm Tuesday, March 5, 2013.