BARBARA J. ABRAHAM
Barbara J. Abraham, of Mexia, passed away peacefully Nov. 9, 2020, at her home, surrounded by her loving family and many friends, at the age of 81.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 14, at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home with Brother Loren Quick and Sister Mary Simon officiating. Interment will follow in the Mexia Cemetery. James Abraham, James Nathan Abraham, Jonathan Abraham, John Abraham, Robert Craig and Michael Scott will serve as pallbearers.
Visitation with the family will be from 4 to 6 p.m., Friday, at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home.
Barbara was born Jan. 12, 1939, In Colfax, La., to Amos and Pearlie (Hughes) Richardson. She received her Master’s in Early Child Development from Northwestern State University in Louisiana. In addition to her most important job of raising her six children, Barbara taught school for 50 years, prior to retiring. She loved children and thoroughly enjoyed her job as a teacher.
Barbara’s family was her life. She was a loving and devoted mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She also loved living in the country where she had the opportunity to raise cows, have a garden and just enjoy everything that pertained to farming; she wasn’t afraid of work. Barbara was always ready to take anyone up on getting an ice cream or a double-meat burger at Whataburger. She was also a “whiz” at doing word-search books; it was very rare that she put a book down before it was finished.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Amos and Pearly Richardson; the father of her children, James Abraham Jr.; daughter, Cynthia Abraham Binkley; son, Jeremiah Amos Abraham; and sister, Mattie Beth Vallery.
Barbara is survived by her children, James Abraham and wife Misty, Joseph “Estella” Abraham, Jonathan Abraham and Mary Wilson and husband Jeremy; 11 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; brother, John Richardson and wife, Eloise; sister, Clara Grace Craig and husband, A.J.; brother-in-law, Tom Vallery; multiple nieces and nephews; and numerous others that she claimed as family.
Please visit www.blairstubbs.com to leave the family a message of condolence or sign the guest book.
