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LOCAL/STATE
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Denton Record-Chronicle
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Denton minister and musician dies
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE STATE
Tyler
Execution set for
convicted killer of woman
maro Hernandez Pedroza dead
on the street from what ap-
peared to be blunt tr auma.
ever he could and see people,”
Ami Barnett said. “He still went
to the Vocal Majority concerts.
He went to the Chr istmas con-
cert, and when they invited for-
mer members to join them, he
did. He was in a wheelchair, but
he got up there and he sang with
them.”
Gribble, who joined the St. An-
drew stalf as the church organist
in 1953 while studying the organ
at what is now the University of
North Texas.
In 1955, Prentice Barnett
became the associate executive
for education for the Presbyte-
rian Synod of the Sun, a gov-
erning body for Presbyterian
churches in Texas, Arkansas,
Louisiana and Oklahoma. He
worked at the Denton head-
quarters for 36 years before re-
tiring in 1991.
While Prentice Barnett nur-
tured Christian leaders in the
South and Southwest, Ann Bar-
nett served as the longtime or-
ganist for Trinity Presbyterian
Church until her retirement
They had five children: Claire
Batey of Denton, Dave Barnett
of Corinth, John Barnett of Dal-
las, Jim Barnett of Phoenix and
Michael Barnett of Denton.
As they raised a family, Bar-
nett sang with the Denton Com-
munity Chorus and served as its
president.
When he retired, Barnett
dove back into his passions —
music chief among them. He
joined the Vocal Majority, the a
cappella men’s chorus that per-
formed his favorite barbershop
harmonies.
“He had a wonderful bass
voice and a low bass at that,”
Clancy said. “He was quite a pia-
no player and had done a lot of
entertaining. And he was the
pastor of the group. There was
one other pastor in the group ...
Prentice and
the other pas-
tor, Joe Frazier,
married me
and
around
years ago.”
Clancy said
Barnett sold
more Vocal
Majority concert tickets than
any other member of the choir.
Prentice joined the group in the
1980s and performed as the
group picked up international
awards in choral singing.
“He was absolutely commit-
ted to the chorus. I bet a thou-
sand people from Denton canre
to our shows over the years,”
Clancy said. “He is responsible
for bringing in many other
members to the chorus, too.”
Barnett played piano once a
week for years at Our Daily
Bread, the local soup kitchen,
Ann Barnett said. And the Sat-
urday before he died, Prentice
Barnett made his regular tr ip to
Golden Triangle Mall, where he
would sit at the piano outside of
J.C. Penney and play for a few
hours, talking to shoppers and
taking the occasional request.
He sang with the choir at Trinity
Presbyterian as long as his
health allowed.
“He wanted to get out when-
Prentice Barnett,
91, was member
of Vocal Majority
Lansing, Mich.
Clothing bin operator
changes labels, settles
An East Texas man on death
row for the slaying of a 93-year-
old woman dur ing a robbery at
her home has received an execu-
tion date.
State District Judge Christi
Kennedy signed an order Mon-
day setting 34-year-old Clifton
Williams for lethal injection
June 21 in Huntsville for the fa-
tal beating and stabbing of Cec-
ilia Schneider at her home in Ty-
ler in July 2005.
Evidence showed Williams
entered through a back door, at-
tacked Schneider and then set
her body and bed on fire. He fled
with her car and her purse con-
taining $40. Authorities said he
wanted money for drugs. De-
fense attorneys argued he was
mentally impaired and ineligi-
ble for the death penalty.
By Lucinda Breeding
Staff Writer
cbreeding@dentonrc.com
Friends and family remem-
bered longtime Denton resident
Prentice Barnett as a devoted
pastor and musician.
“He loved everyone,” said
Jim Clancy, executive director
of the Vocal Majority, the Dal-
las men’s chorus Barnett per-
formed with for decades. “He
loved people, and he was prac-
tically family to all the men in
the chorus.”
Barnett died at age 91 on Fri-
day, days after suffering a stroke.
Barnett was bom in Alvarado
on Sept. 2, 1926. He was the
youngest of nine children of
Prentice Hall Barnett and Nellie
Lane Barnett. He graduated
from Garland High School in
1944, and got his English degree
at Trinity University in 1950.
He earned a Master of Divin-
ity from Princeton Theological
Seminary in 1953.
After his ordination, Barnett
came to Denton to be the associ-
ate pastor of St. Andrew Presby-
terian Church.
His tenure there was short —
1953-55. But it was there that
Barnett met his wife, Ann Taylor
Judy
A Texas-based clothing do-
nation bin operator is changing
the way it labels bins for the
Michigan Humane Society as
part of a settlement with Michi-
gan’s attorney general.
General
Schuette’s office announced
Tuesday it had reached the set-
tlement with Houston-based
ATRS.
30
Dawson Tunnell, another lo-
cal Presbyterian minister, said
Barnett found a wellspring of
compassion in the example of
Jesus.
Barnett
Bill
Attorney
“Jesus said to his followers,
some of whom were slaves, ‘I do
not call you slaves; I call you
friends,”’ Tunnell said. “Prentice
had this way of treating any and
every person he met as friends,
whether in the checkout line at
the grocery store or the food line
at Our Daily Bread. He never
met a stranger. I am proud to be
one whom Prentice considered a
friend for almost 80 years.”
Clancy said Vocal Majority
members will sing during Bar-
nett’s memorial service and re-
ception at 2 p.m. Saturday at St.
Andrew Presbyterian Church,
300 W. Oak St.
A visitation will be from 6 to
8 p.m. Friday at Bill DeBerry Fu-
neral Directors, 2025 W. Uni-
versity Drive. In lieu of flowers,
send memorial gifts to Our Dai-
ly Bread ministry at St. Andrew
Presbyterian, or the music min-
istry at Trinity Presbyterian
Church.
Schuette alleged that ATRS
falsely labeled about 250 cloth-
ing bins by saying the society
gets 100 percent of the market
value of every donation.
Wylie
White tiger has ‘Star
Wars’ moniker Kylo Ren
Houston
Man fatally beaten with
baseball bat; son sought
A rare white tiger born at an
exotic animal sanctuary near
Dallas has been named for a
Dark Side villain in Stars Wars.
Angela Culver with In-Sync
Exotics in Wylie said Tuesday
that the cub bom March 6 has
been named Kylo Ren and he’s
“pretty adorable.” She says sanc-
tuary owner Vicky Keahey is a
Star Wars fan.
Houston police are looking
for a 29-year-old man who fled
on foot after his father was beat-
en to death with a baseball bat
outside their home.
Police Lt. Larry Crowson says
officers responding to a call early
Tuesday about an assault in
progress found 64-year-old Bul-
— The Associated Press
8 indicted in supremacist gang member's death
BRIEFLY
IN DENTON
ton that were funded after the
primary widening project was
completed last year. In Denton,
from the Dallas Drive/U.S.
Highway 77 ramp south to the
Mayhill Road intersection,
TxDOT will add a third lane on
I-35E, build an underpass at
Brinker Road and widen the
Loop 288 interchange.
City staff said to expect addi-
tional lane shifts and realign-
ments as construction proceeds
for the rest of 2018.
Jordan’s 12-page indictment,
which a grand juiy handed up
on Dec. 14, says he and others
participated in Hallmark’s kill-
ing “for the purpose of gaining
entrance to and maintaining
and increasing position” in the
Aryan Circle. Jordan also is
charged with illegally using a
firearm.
The Aryan Circle was found-
ed around 1985 within the Texas
prison system, emerging during
a “period of internal turmoil”
within the Aryan Brotherhood
of Texas, the indictment says.
By Michael Kunzelman
Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. -
Eight alleged members or asso-
ciates of a white supremacist
prison gang called the Aryan
Grcle have been indicted in
Louisiana on federal charges in
the 2016 killing of a fellow al-
leged member of the gang.
Court records unsealed on
Tuesday show Jeremy Wade
Jordan, 38, of Orange, Texas,
pleaded guilty on March 2 to the
first of two counts in his indict-
ment. The first count in his Dec.
14 indictment charged Jordan
with “violent crimes in aid of
racketeering” in the murder of
Clifton Hallmark in Evangeline
Parish.
Jordan, whose case had re-
mained under seal since Decem-
ber, is scheduled to be sentenced
on June 18.
A separate indictment, also
unsealed Tuesday, charges seven
other people — residents of Lou-
isiana, Texas, Oklahoma or Ar-
kansas — with being accessories
after the fact to the slaying. The
two-page indictment, handed
up last Thursday, says they
helped Jordan “in order to hin-
der and prevent Ins apprehen-
sion, trial and punishment”
All eight defendants are in
custody, according to Justice
Department spokeswoman Ni-
cole Navas.
KLFY-TV has reported that
Hallmark, a Shreveport resi-
dent, was shot and killed on July
1,2016, during an argument at a
Turkey Creek home. The indict-
ment doesn’t say whether the
suspects were in or out of prison
when Hallmark was killed.
Lane shift coming
on I-35E tonight
The Texas Department of
Transportation told the Denton
city staff that crews will begin
shifting southbound main lane
traffic on Interstate 35E over-
night today into Thursday
morning.
TxDOT plans to move the
southbound main lanes onto the
detour route of the old south-
bound frontage road.
The project is part of I-35E
improvements in southern Den-
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