Obituary

Funeral services for Tony Barbian Sr., age 92, of Kress, Texas, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in St. Paul Lutheran Church with Gerald Boerger, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Memorial Park. Arrangements are by Wood-Dunning Funeral Home of Plainview. He was born March 31, 1914, in Dallas County to Peter and Pauline Barbian and died at 8:10 a.m. Aug. 22, 2006, in Plainview Healthcare Center. He came to Kress in 1926 from Littlelfield. He repaired combines, loved to fish and was a member of St. Paul Lutheran, Plainview. He married Eulalia Bertelson April 26, 1945, in Plainview. Survivors are his wife; a son, Tony Barbian Jr., and wife, Nelda, of Plainview; a son-in-law, Larry Stoerner and wife Nancy of Santa Fe, N.M.; four grandchildren, Shawn Barbian of Lubbock, Dr. Scott Stoerner of Salt Like City, Utah, Sandra Ohnstad of Wichita, Kan., and Rachel Barbian of Plainview; two great-grandchildren; and three sisters, Barbara Bernet of Lubbock, Bertha James of Claude and Magdalene Young of Kress. He was preceded in death by a daughter and four brothers.