Born in Kansas City, MO. Sept. 30, 1926 to Omar and Ila O'Bannon, the family moved to Los Angeles in 1937. Her father died when she was 13 and her mother was a riveter at Douglas Aircraft in WWII. She went to John Muir Jr. High and Manual Arts High and was active in Vermont Ave. Presbyterian Church, where she met David, whom she married in 1945. With son Mike they moved to Norwalk in 1950, where Jenny and Debbie were born. She was active in PTA, serving as Norwalk's president, and with David sponsored the High School Sunday School at St. John's., where she was ordained an elder in 1977. She was a librarian at Tracy School in the ABC School District and active in the D.W. Circle and Forest Home Auxiliary. In 1980 she and David joined Hollywood Presbyterian Church. David died in 1997. Her last months were spent in a wheelchair in a nursing home. Survived by son Michael of Buena Park; daughters Jennifer Robison of Chico and Deborah Garcia of Bakersfield; sister Beverly Pappas of Las Vegas; 6 grandchildren. Donations to Forest Home Christian Conference Center or Hollywood Presbyterian Church.
Published on Page 17 of the January 29, 2006 issue of the Long Beach Press-Telegram - is said to have included a photo of Barbara as well.
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