OBITUARY

MRS. LAURA BARNARD-GEORGE

Sunrise : March 15, 1908;     Sunset: May 5, 2008

The Barnard, Hall, Junius, Diggs, Benson and George families wish to announce the home going of Mrs. Laura Barnard-George whose centennial birthday was celebrated on March 15, 2008 in Bowie (MD - USA). She passed away peacefully 6:45 p.m. on May 5, 2008 at the Mariner Health of Greater Laurel, Laurel, MD (USA). She was born March 15, 1908 (in Fortsville, Grand Bassa County - Liberia) unto the union of the late Col. John T. Barnard Sr. and Mrs. Augusta Junius-Barnard. She lived in Fortsville until the onset of the war, constraining her to take up residency in the USA, May 1990. Her nine siblings having predeceased her, she automatically became the Grand Matriarch of the Barnard Family. She is survived by a host of relatives in the USA, UK, Germany, Liberia and Ghana: these include her son Edward Hall (Vonyee), daughter Joanna Clarke, three grandchildren, two great-grand daughters, nieces, nephews, one sister-in-law, cousins and friends.

Funeral Arrangements

Wake Keeping:
6:00PM – 9:00PM Friday, May 23, 2008
Grace United Methodist Church ,
7001 New Hampshire Avenue ,
Takoma Park , MD 20912

Funeral Services:
8:30 AM Saturday, May 24, 2008
Grace United Methodist Church
7001 New Hampshire Avenue
Takoma Park , MD 20012

Interment:
Gate of Heaven Cemetery
13801 George Avenue
Silver Spring , MD 20906
Tel. 301-871-6500

Funeral Home:
Capitol Mortuary, Inc.
1425 Maryland Avenue, NE
Washington , DC 20002
Tel: 201-399-6999

REPAST:
Follows immediately at the same Church in the Basement after Interment.
(Tel: 301-891-2100).

Contact: For information please refer to:

HOTELS:

Red Roof Inn
9050 Lanham Severn Rd.
Lanham, Md 20706
301-731-8830

Days Inn Lanham
9023 Annapolis Rd.
Lanham, Md 20706
301-459-6600

Four Points by Sheraton New Carrollton
8500 Annapolis Rd.
New Carrollton, Md 20784
301-459-6700