Memorial service for Ralph C. Barnes of Cape Girardeau was held Monday at Memorial Park Mausoleum. The Rev. Wes Wright officiated.
Ford and Sons Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Barnes, 84, died Saturday, Aug. 23, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.
He was born Sept. 26, 1912, in East Prairie, son of Edward L. and Hattie Huffman Barnes. He and Maxine Davis were married June 30, 1977. She died July 4, 1989.
Barnes retired as an accountant with Stewart Steel in Sikeston.
Survivors include a brother, Jerry Barnes of Sherman Oaks, Calif.
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