Pall Bearers Deacons of Chestnut Grove Baptist Church 
Flower Ladies Members of Chestnut Grove Church 
 
The family of Deacon Luke I. Barnett would like to thank everyone for their acts of kindness, cards, food and calls. May God keep you all in His care. 
The Family Final Arrangements Entrusted To Jackson-McWhorter Funeral Home 
1253 West Broad Street Athens, Georgia (706) 543-3623 
 
April29,2010 
 
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Chestnut Grove Baptist Church 
 
Athens, Georgia 
 
Pastor Wilson Lattimore, Officiating 
 
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~ke Jsaiah ~arnett was born on January 31, 1915 in Clarke 
County, Georgia, the first son of Odie and Hattie Jones Barnett. 
He began assisting his father on the family farm at the age of eight and joined the Chestnut Grove Baptist Church in 1929 at the age of fourteen. He became a deacon in 1944 and was a faithful member throughout his life. 
 
Prelude Processional 
 
Luke attended Union Baptist Institute and in 1933 joined the C.C.C. Camp in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After returning home from C.C.C. Camp, he was married to Roberta Virginia Glenn on December 6, 1936. To this union three children were born: Louis Hinton Barnett, Cordelia Delores Barnett and Tyrone McCoil Barnett. 
 
He was self-employed during his working career and took pride in his 
 
independence. He was a barber, drove a school bus, ran a wood business, 
 
operated a service station and did landscaping during his retirement. 
 
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He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Roberta G. Barnett, two 
 
sisters; Oree Long and Cleora Johnson; three brothers Lloyd Barnett, 
 
Hampton Barnett and Eddie Gary ; three brothers-in-law, Horace E. 
 
Tate, Carter Lincoln and Walter Tidwell; son-in-law Robert Allen and 
 
Eulogy-- 
 
granddaughter Sylvia Allen. 
 
He leaves to cherish his memory a daughter Cordelia Allen; two sons; Louis H. Barnett ( ldanell) and Tyrone M. Barnett (Marion); four sisters; Lillie Mae Williams, Venida Tidwell, Ernestine Lincoln and Virginia Tate; two sisters-in-law Johnella Barnett and Sue Gary; five grandsons; Anthony Allen, Michael Barnett, Derrick Lee, Fred Beal and Craig Beal and a host of neices, nephews other family and friends. 
 
Recessional INTERNMENT 
In The Family Cemetery Repass at Chestnut Grove Baptist Church