Frances Barnard Obituary

Frances Sellers Barnard SUMMERVILLE - Frances Sellers Barnard, age 105, of Summerville, South Carolina, passed away peacefully on December 3, 2021. Due to COVID, funeral arrangements are pending. Fran was born in Savannah, Georgia to Francis Bachman Sellers and Attelia Rabb Sellers on April 13, 1916. After high school, she attended Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina. She married Robert W. Barnard on February 26, 1945 in Hackensack, New Jersey. Fran began a lifetime of service to others in the wartime Red Cross, where she cared for wounded soldiers. She met her future husband while working at Batty General Hospital in Rome, Georgia. In addition to her devotion to her children and family, she was active in her church and in fundraising for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. She was an avid bridge player as well as the author of a cookbook and a 2-volume autobiography of her incredible life. After moving to the Presbyterian Village in 2001, she began her "Cookie Ministry" - every year baking a plate of birthday cookies for each resident and many of the Village staff...a labor of love that continued past her 100th birthday. Fran was known as "the Cookie Lady" and was the subject of several articles in the local paper. In 2011, at age 95, Fran was among fifty seniors honored in Washington DC for their charitable work and service to others. Fran is preceded in death by her loving husband, Robert W. Barnard (she called him "My Bob"), her parents, her brother (Francis Bachman Sellers, Jr.) and three sisters (Attelia Peebles, Dorothy Pickens & Kathryn Roberts). Fran is survived by her three sons (Wayne, Lee, & Chris,) daughters-in-love, Jackie and Ellen, four grandchildren (Andrew, Jennifer, Natalie & Hayden), and seven great- grandchildren (Byron, Haylan, Luke, Jocelyn, Ford, Richie & Linley Kate), Francis Bachman Sellers III, and many nieces, nephews and cousins. The family is profoundly grateful and thankful for all the loving care Fran received from the staff at the Presbyterian Village and Agape Hospice. Memorials may be given to The Presbyterian Village at Summerville, SC or Agape Hospice, Summerville, SC. Visit our guestbook at legacy.com/obituaries/charleston