Dateline: Surfside Beach, SC
Mrs. Martha Jane Morrison Barkley, age 77 passed away peacefully Thursday, March 19, 2020 at Tucker Hospice House with her family by her side.
The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 am Saturday, March 21 at Wilkinson Funeral Home. A private funeral service will be held in the chapel at 11 am with Rev. Thant McManus officiating. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery.
Martha was born October 1, 1942 in Cabarrus County, a daughter of the late Dallas Wallace Morrison and Beatrice Ellen Tarlton Morrison. She and her husband retired to the beach where she enjoyed reading, doing jigsaw puzzles and spending time on the beach. She was a member of South Strand Assembly of God in Murrells Inlet.
Those left to cherish her memory is her loving husband, Lynn Barkley; daughter, Amanda Garvin and husband, Jason of Mooresville; sons, Wallace Readling and wife, Amy of Concord and Perry Readling and wife, Nancy of Harrisburg; grandchildren, Colby Readling, Carter Moran and husband, Preston, Garrett and Tanner Readling, and great-grandchild, Milo Moran.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hope Street Food Pantry, 4100 Johnston Oehler Road, Charlotte, NC 28269 or to Hospice and Palliative Care of Cabarrus County, 5003 Hospice Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28081.