Barbara Kathleen Stearns, daughter of the late Cecil Sipes and Ella Brassfield Sipes, was born in Blytheville, Arkansas on January 21, 1934 and departed this life in Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter, Missouri on August 6, 2016 at the age of 82.
 
Mrs. Stearns was a homemaker, had worked at Brown Shoe Company of Bernie, Missouri for 27 years and later worked for Gates Rubber of Poplar Bluff, Missouri on 13 years.  She was a member of the Essex Church of Christ.
 
She was united in marriage to Walter Lindell Stearns on March 4, 1950 in Piggott, Arkansas.  Mr. Stearns preceded his wife in  death on January 19, 1995.
 
Survivors include five sons, Ronnie Stearns & wife Linda of Dexter, Missouri, Rickey Stearns & wife Betty of Dexter, Missouri, Terry Stearns & wife Cindy of Bernie, Missouri, Kenny Stearns of Farmington, Missouri and Timmy Stearns of Dexter, Missouri; by one sister, Gloria Blough of Dexter, Missouri; by seven grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren;  also by other relatives and many friends.
 
She was preceded in death other than by her parents and her husband, by three brothers, Alvin Sipes, Bud Sipes and Joe Webster; by three sisters, Pauline Sipes Warren, Juanita Webster Mosley and Lola Jean Sipes in infancy.
 
Friends may call at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie, Missouri on Monday, August 8, 2016 from 12:00 P.M. until 2:00 P.M.  

Funeral services will then be conducted at 2:00 P.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home with Herman Morris officiating.  

Interment will follow in Chalk Bluff Cemetery, Rural Dexter, Missouri.  

Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in charge of all arrangements.