Barbara "Boo" Golightly

BARBARA "BOO" GOLIGHTLY, 58, of Yantis, passed from this life Thursday May 5, 2011 at Hopkins County Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted at 11:00 a.m. Monday May 9, 2011 in the chapel of Starrett Funeral Home in Paris, with Rev. Jerry Jackson officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Barbara was born March 6, 1953 in Paris, a daughter of Avoid and Martha Ellen Duncan Golightly. She attended Euless schools, and was of the Baptist faith. She loved to work in the yard, and was a lover of cats. She enjoyed bird watching. She had endured many hardships throughout life, but her consistent character and love of life helped her to endure. Her strength was an amazement to her family and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, and by a sister, Carolyn Joyce Golightly.

She is survived by a daughter, Connie Sue Golightly, of Yantis; her lifelong and special friend Carl Ritch, of Yantis; two brothers, Jack Golightly and wife Mary Ann, of Burleson, and Donnie Golightly and wife Janet, of North Richland Hills; a twin sister, Brenda Wilson and husband Lee, of Yantis; numerous nieces and nephews, including Jesse Shearer and wife Glenda, of Emory, Jason Shearer, of Yantis, Jeremy Golightly and wife Michelle, of North Richland Hills, Jennifer Brawner and husband Jason, of North Richland Hills, Robin Golightly, of Mt. Vernon and Tami Jo Wade and husband Bobby, of Burleson.

Named to serve as pallbearers are Jeremy Golightly, J.R. Anderson, Chris Henderson, Jason Brawner, Roger Honea and Darrell Honea.