Barbara Joan Jennings was born on April 6, 1940 to Fay J. and Zelma Dahl-Jennings in Kooskia, Idaho. She attended Clarkston High School in Clarkston, Idaho.
Barbara married Clayton D. Evans on April 19, 1958 in Lewiston, Idaho. She worked at Newberry's Department store in Lewiston, until she quit work in 1960 to start a family. They lived in Lewiston until the children were in grade school, and then moved to the Tri-Cities for a year while Clayton worked for Sears.
They returned to Lewiston for three years where they moved to the Tammany area to farm for Ed and Helen McCann. Barbara was able to stay with her children, garden and can her vegetables. During this time the family took up square dancing with the twin City Twirlers. Barbara was an accomplished seamstress, sewing clothes for the kids as well as their dresses and shorts to wear for the dances.
In 1974, the family moved to Pullman, Wash. In the mid-1970's, Barbara went to work for Rosauer's as a bakery manager. She got to meet a lot of people through work. Around 1980 Barbara took a checker training course and went to work for Safeway, where she worked until retiring.
When Barbara and Clayton retired, they scoured the countryside to find the perfect place to raise field test dogs, finally deciding on the Cheney/Tyler area in Washington.
She is survived by her husband, Clayton, daughter Laurie Freitag, husband B.J., granddaughter Jodi Gay and her husband John, great-grand-daughters Harper and Bailey; son Steve and his wife Carol, grandson Cody and his wife Teara. She was preceded in death by her father Fay, mother Zelma, sisters Shirley Davis and Donna Holland and daughter Loretta Faye Evans.
The internment and graveside service will be held at the Pullman Cemetery, June 6, 2015 at 11 a.m. Memorial donations can be made to Clayton Evans, Chessie Rescue, 23615 S. Malloy Prairie Rd., Cheney, WA 99004.
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