October 29, 2020, in Greenville, South Carolina.
Harriet was born October 16, 1939, in Memphis,Tennessee to Temple and Jake Stockley. She graduated from Mariana High School in 1957, then wenton to attend Memphis State University where she received a BA in music education along with a MA inmusic. Upon graduation from Memphis State, she taught elementary school in Gary, Indiana, Memphis,Tennessee, Puerto Rico, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Harriet remained in Hot Springs until she met Billy Barnett and married on June 17, 1971. She relocated
to Crossett, Arkansas, where she taught special education for ten years before becoming a homemaker
and church pianist. Harriet continued to play both the piano and the organ for the First United Methodist Church of Crossett and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church of Crossett. Harriet was a member of Daughters of the American Revolution. She enjoyed being a member of the Crossett Book Club, Blue Stockings Book Club and Christ Episcopal Church of Greenville, South Carolina.
After Billy’s death, Harriet remained in Crossett for ten years before relocating to Greenville, South
Carolina to be near her daughter. Harriet is preceded in death by her parents Temple and Jake Stockley,
and her husband Billy Barnett. She is survived by her son James Bradley Davis and wife Lonni Welch
Davis along with their children, Reeves, Walker and Mabry of Hamburg, Arkansas, as well as her
daughter Elizabeth Temple Langston, her husband Tim Langston and their children Addison and Barnett
of Greenville, South Carolina. Harriet is also survived by four step children and their families, as well as
her sister Sally Stockley Johnson and her brother Griffin Jasper Stockley both of Little Rock, Arkansas.
A graveside service will be held Saturday, November 21, 2020 at 2 P.M. at Pinewood Cemetery in
Crossett, Arkansas.
A memorial in memory of Harriet S. Barnett may be made to St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38101 or GHS Hospice of the Foothills, 390
Keowee School Road, Seneca, South Carolina 29672.
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