Audrey’s Obituary Audrey Lucille Wilson Barrett Audrey Lucille Wilson Barrett was born on December 29, 1921, near Chanute, Kansas, to Arthur Clifton Wilson and Josephine Adelaide Moody Wilson. A few years later her family moved from southeastern Kansas to western Kansas by covered wagon. She was baptized in the Christian church in Atwood, Kansas, but spent most of her formative years attending the Methodist church in Burdett, Kansas.
She graduated from high school in 1939 in Burdett. On December 17, 1946, she married Hugh Preston Barrett in the First Christian Church, Larned, Kansas. Soon after, both of them enrolled in the Bible College of Phillips University, Enid, Oklahoma.
As Preston served as minister of various Christian (Disciples of Christ) congregations in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas, Audrey saw her role as minister’s wife. This involved leadership in the Christian Women’s Fellowship, not only at the local level, but also at the state and national levels. For a number of years she served as president of the Christian Women’s Fellowship of the Christian Church in Texas and as a member of the national CWF board.
In addition, she was a musician, a published poet, an occasional preacher, a Bible study leader, and a mentor on the topic of prayer. She died on February 23, 2019, in Wichita, Kansas, where she had lived for the past 25 years. Audrey Barrett was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Velma Wilson Cooksey; a brother, Floyd Wilson; two half-sisters, Dorothy Wilson Baker and Bertha Wilson Montague; a half-brother, Claude Wilson; a great-granddaughter, Kassica Harp; and her husband, Preston, who died in 2007, a few months after their 60th wedding anniversary.
She was the last of her generation in the family, surviving all her siblings, siblings-in-law, and first cousins. Audrey is survived by a daughter, Lois (Thomas Mierau), of Wichita; a son, Mark (Melinda Barrett), of Norman, Oklahoma; five grandchildren, Barbara Kramer (Corey) of Wichita, Susanna Mierau (Martin Hemberg) of Cambridge, United Kingdom, John Mierau of Wichita, Avery Barrett of Oakland, California, and Alice Jaggers (Richard) of Little Rock, Arkansas; four great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. Visitation with the family present will be from 5 – 7 p.m. Thursday, February 28, 2019 at the Cochran Mortuary, 1411 N. Broadway, Wichita, KS 67214.
(Parking lot access from Market St., 1 block west of Broadway. ) Service will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 1, 2019 at the Mennonite Church of the Servant, 2401 N. Woodland, Wichita, KS 67204. Burial will follow at 4 p.m. Friday, March 1, 2019 in the Pawnee Rock (Kansas) Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made in her memory to Church World Service, P.O. Box 968, Elkhart, IN 46515.
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