HUB BARKER 1954 - 1986 STATION AGENT, STATION MANAGER LAA DUC LBB OKC We have lost 2 of the older CN employees several years back . Hub Barker and Linzy Pendergraft, and ,of course, our Manager Doyle Johnson. Later, -Dick Withrow (9/29/02) Do you have additional info on the deaths of Barker and Pendergraft such as date of death, obituary, etc. I can post the info on our website and in the newsletter. I already have some info on Doyle from his son. Add anything you have. -Jake Lamkins (9/30/02) I'm still trying to find some info on their deaths. I found this at the Social Security Death Index: LINZY N PENDERGRAFT Born 10 Jan 1929 Died 19 Jul 1989 At 73119 (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, OK) SSN 431-50-0189 issued in Arkansas Does that sound like our Linzy? Can't find anything on Hub. What was his real name and approximate age? Thanks, -Jake Lamkins (10/27/02) That is Linzys birthday 1-10-29 His date of hire with CN was 8-10-64. His address was 2608 SW 46th st Terr. OKC 73119. His wife Paula still lives there. Hub E Barker SSN 448306013 Date of hire with CN June 26 1954 I do know that Hub went to work with SWA in OKC after FL and was employed with them until his death. -Dick Withrow (10/27/02) Correction That is Linzys birthday 1-10-29 His date of hire with CN was 8-10-64. His address was 2608 SW 46th st Terr. OKC 73119. His wife paula still lives there.. Hub E Barker SSN 448306013 Date of hire with CN June 26 1954 I do know that Hub went to work with SWA in OKC after FL and was employed with them until his death. Hubs birthdate 07-13-30 CN employee # 0807 -Dick Withrow (10/27/02) HUBBY E BARKER Born 13 Jul 1930 Died 15 Sep 1992 At 73099 (Yukon, Canadian, OK) SSN issued in Oklahoma -SSDI (10/28/02) I believe Linzy only worked at OKC. He worked for AA before Central and was a Radio Operator. Hub worked at several cites before OKC but the only one I can remember is he was CN manager at DUC at the FL/CN merger. -Dick Withrow (10/28/02) I was looking around at some of the info posted and came across Hub Barker's obit. He was the first station manager for Central in Lamar CO (LAA). He was there for a year before the runway was built and paved. The flights from OKC-DEN-OKC used it as a radio check point for updates of WX and other flight data. I was working in DEN as the first agent for CN and transferred to LAA to work for Hub for about a year before going back to DEN. I drove through LAA a few years ago went out to the airport. The old terminal /hanger was still there looking pretty much like it did in 1957-58. I think I have a picture some place and will have to dig it out so I can send you a scanned copy. Bill Blackmon use to fly through there and hung the "Overdier Delay" tag on me. He was always calling in his ground time with a delay built in and classifying it as a Overdier Delay. Naturally I would get a correction before he got out of radio range. Had to do something for excitement in those little stations besides watching the clouds and listen to the coyotes. -Paul Overdier (11/11/02) I was sorry to read that Hub Barker and Sam Cales passed on. I first met Hub in the 1953-54s when I worked with CN in LAW and he worked with CO in LAW. Probably few people knew that Hub was an excellent guitar player and singer. He could do "Cattle-Call" and yodel like Eddie Arnold. I worked with Sam Cales when he was manager in DAL. I thought it was ironic that Sam and CN President Keith Kahle had a similar last name and both of them stuttered their words. I did not make fun of them as they were fine people and were admired. -Jack Prather (3/17/03) FOUND AT MYSPACE - PROBABLY POSTED BY ONE OF HUB'S CHILDREN Hello, I'm Hub Barker. I was born in 1930 in Holdenville, Oklahoma. I grew up around Gainesville, Texas and spent a good portion of my life in Oklahoma City working for Southwest Airlines and playing for the Oklahoma Opry. I sure love to sing and play my guitar for folks. I play at church, BBQs, picnics, before supper and after supper. Heck I even have a recording studio in my spare bedroom where I'd make tapes that I would give out to friends and family. My best friend is a man named Bill Hagara he plays the accordion and one time we even traveled to War Eagle, Arkansas for the annual crafts fair and played for folks there. He is a swell guy and I enjoy his company. Please come back to visit my page in the next weeks and months because I�ll be addin� some of my music and even some videos and other information regarding my life and my legacy as the �Most Obscure Musician in Red Dirt History.� -http://www.myspaceprofiles.org/profiles/97579349.html (10/18/08) Hubby E. Barker Station agent seniority date of 6/26/54, DUC SSM, on the CN/ALEA 1/1/62 seniority list. H. E. Barker Station agent seniority date of 6/26/54, emp# 00807, #18, LOA, on the 1/1/86 FL/ALEA seniority list. -Jake Lamkins (10/25/08) I think of Hub Barker all the time, what a special person!! I'm sure you remember him. -John Winter (5/6/14) Hub came up to Denver to visit my friend Boyd Rose. We all went out to a country western bar with live entertainment. Sometime during the evening Hub went up to ask the band if he could sing with them. Not knowing Hub, they said okay, thinking he was a drunk and would be funny!! Everyone in the place was stunned including me. He sang a number of Hank William's songs, and the crowd went wild. With that Boyd and I had to stay until closing time, because every time he tried to leave,the band and the crowd made him stay. Boyd and I felt like we were with a celebrity!! The band and the management asked him to please come back the next night. Unfortunately he had to get back to work! I'll never forget Hub and that night, along with several other Hub Barker stories. God bless him, he was a hell of a good man!! -John Winter (5/7/14)