Barbara Glynn Haggy, a 72-year-old resident of Trenton, died on Friday afternoon, May 5, 2006 from injuries received in an automobile accident at Stewartsville.
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Barbara Glynn Haggy, a 72-year-old resident of Trenton, died on Friday afternoon, May 5, 2006 from injuries received in an automobile accident at Stewartsville.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at the Glenn E. Kent and Son Funeral Chapel in Milan. Jim Riddle will officiate. Music will be furnished by soloist Allen Haggy and recorded selections. Linda Smith will be the organist. Casketbearers will be Ferman Hostetler, James Owings, John Higgins, Christian Haggy, Loran Johnson and Adam Moreno.
Burial will be in the Cheesman Cemetery in southwest Adair County.
Mrs. Haggy was born on Dec. 10, 1933 in San Antonio, TX, the daughter of Everisto and Mildred Carr Galindo. She was raised in Colorado and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps at age 16. She went through basic training at Camp Lejeune, NC and was stationed in Hawaii. She was married on Sept. 17, 1956 in Colorado Springs, CO to Bobby Lee Haggy, who survives. After their marriage, they moved to Chicago, where she was employed with Mars Candy. She and her husband moved in 1958 to Kirksville, where he attended Northeast Missouri State Teachers College. They lived in various towns in Missouri where he taught and she was a housewife. They moved to Trenton 13 years ago. She had been active in the Cornerstone Church and the community. She was a clown and had a balloon animal personal ministry to area nursing homes.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by two sons, Allen Othel Haggy and his wife, June, of Cary, NC and Robert Daniel Haggy and his wife, Lara, of Gardner, KS; two daughters, Brenda Lee Stanton of Durham, NC and Lorie Ann Higgins and her husband, John, of Durham; two brothers, John Galindo of San Diego, CA and Charles “Chuck” Parker of Denver, CO; two sisters, Mary Cathleen York of Colorado Springs and Gladys Walters of Steamboat Springs, CO; and six grandchildren, Christian Haggy, Alexandria “Allie” Haggy, Stephan William Lee Haggy, Anna Nicole Haggy, Lydia Glynn Haggy and Ashley Elizabeth Higgins.
She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Mildred Townsend.
The family suggest memorials to the Cornerstone Church.