Mary Dean Barker, 86, of Bay died Thursday, May 24, 2007 at Craighead County Nursing Center in Jonesboro.

She was born in Guntersville, Ala., and she had lived most of her lifetime in the Bay area. She was a homemaker and member of the First Baptist Church in Bay.

Barker was preceded in death by her husband, Andrew Jackson Barker, Jr.; two sons, Jerry Barker and Dennis Barker; and her parents, D.M. and Susie Murrell LaFarlett.

She is survived by four daughters, Gaye Parish of Bay and Wanda Lamkin, Kathy Limpach and Linda Hogue, all of Jonesboro; four sons, Billy Barker of Trumann, Richard Barker of Paragould, and Donald Barker and John Barker both of Jonesboro; three sisters, Lee Jones of Rockford, Ill., Lillian George of Trumann and Ruth Riley of Detroit, Mich.; 13 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were Friday, May 25 in the chapel of Thompson Funeral Home in Trumann with Dr. Stan Ballard officiating. Burial followed in the Nettleton Cemetery in Jonesboro.

Active pallbearers were grandsons, Ben Barker, Dustin Barker, Daniel Barker, Adam Hogue, Jason Cottingham and Brian Ellard.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to St. Bernard's Hospice Program in Jonesboro.

An online guest book can be signed at www.thompsonfuneralhome.net.