The funeral service for electrician John Robert Barker of Buchanan will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Ridgeway Funeral Home. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Named as pallbearers are Todd French, Pat Sarabia, Barry Bryan, Dorris Evans, Daniel Stephenson and Norman Hancock. Michael Lloyd Barker will be an honorary pallbearer.
Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Friday and after 10 a.m. Saturday.
Barker, 48, died Monday, July 8, 2013, in a workplace accident at Lakewood School.
Born March 1, 1965, in Noblesville, Ind., he was a son of Peggy Boyer Hebner of Springville
and John F. Barker of Noblesville. He was the stepson of William Hebner of Springville and Ann Barker of Noblesville.
Barker worked for E&W Electrical Solutions in Paris. A retired U.S. Army veteran, he was a member of AMVETS.
He also leaves one daughter: Abigail Rose Barker of Paris; one son: John Masen Barker of Paris; one brother: Michael Lloyd (Melissa) Barker of Middletown, Ind.; one grandmother: Phyllis Copas of Springville; a stepgrandmother: Evelyn Boyer of Cicero, Ind.; and his former wife: Darci French of
Paris.