Mrs. Barbara Louise (Dunagan) Buchanan

Mrs. Barbara attended elementary and high school and finished all qualified grades.

She left her hometown at 18 years of age to live in Houston, TX, where she met and married Welton Smith. To this union seven children were born.

After her divorce from Mr. Welton Smith, she would be blessed to marry Mr. Albert James Buchanan. There were no children born to this union, but Mr. Buchanan cared for and took care of all seven children as if they were his own. He bought a house on Whitney in Houston where they lived happily until his death in 1973.

Albert James and Barbara L. Buchanan joined Greater First Baptist Church under Rev. Gibbs. Later they would follow the congregation to Yale Street Baptist Church. She remained a member until illness caused her to be unable to attend.

She was a good homemaker; worked and took care of her family. Her careers included sewing and baby-sitting for the neighborhood kids until she was hired to work at Sears & Roebuck on North Shepherd as a catalog employee.

After ten years with the company, she would leave to become an educator with Houston Independent School District. She worked with Special Education children at Marshall Middle School and went on to work for Jefferson Davis High School. She retired after thirty years of service.

She took ill and was in and out of the hospital until July 10, 2023, when she came home under Accent Hospice Care. Mrs. Barbara went home to be with the Lord on August 8, 2023.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Houston and L.V. Dunagan; brother, Lozel Dunagan; two sisters, Hazel Jean Haynes and Edna Dixon; five children, Linda Smith, Donna Ann Smith, Sally Joyce Smith, Christopher David Smith and Michael Earl Pryor Buchanan and one granddaughter, Stephanie Augustine.

She leaves to mourn her passing one daughter, Ruthie Williams (Robert); two sons, Welton Smith Jr. and Bobby C. Smith; grandchildren, Kimberly Augustine (Jonathan Williams), Ashley Buchanan, Michael Buchanan Jr., Marquise Buchanan; great grandchildren, Nekkia D. Augustine, Robert Henderson, Kevin Crear Jr.; great-great granddaughter, Jordyn Addison Banks; two brother in laws, Leo Dixon and Fred Haynes and a host of nieces, nephews that will miss her tremendously.