Harold Eugene Barger

BARGER, HAROLD EUGENE January 8, 1931 – August 9, 2022 Harold Eugene Barger, 91, of Greensboro, North Carolina went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. Harold was born at home on January 8, 1931 in Elkhart, Indiana as the youngest son of John Vernon Barger and Grace Bickel Barger. He graduated from Elkhart High School in 1949. He attended Huntington College in Huntington, IN and then graduated from Bethel College in Mishawaka, IN with a degree in Pastoral Ministries. He pastored 3 churches in Indiana and Michigan in the 1950's. In 1956 Harold was one of the founding members of Faith Mission of Elkhart, Inc., a Christian social service agency which provides food, shelter, clothing and other services for homeless individuals of Elkhart County. He received his Master's Degree in Education from Indiana University/South Bend and became an elementary and junior high school teacher in Elkhart, Indiana and later in Eden, North Carolina.

Harold married the love of his life, Sara Ruth Neu, on September 1, 1950 and they were married for 70 years until her death on April 30, 2020. He is survived by his four children, John Barger and wife Becky of Cornelius, NC, Leah Barger of Winston-Salem, NC, Scott Barger and wife Sharon of Eden, NC, and Mark Barger of Winston-Salem, NC; and 5 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchldren. The family would like to thank the following people for the loving and tender care they gave to Dad: Ron Lewis (caregiver), Nancy Sellers (Hospice nurse), and the staff of Silas Creek Rehab Center, especially the nurses and CNAs of Nurses Station B. No formal services will be held.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Faith Mission of Elkhart, 801 Benham Ave., Elkhart, IN 46516, www.thefaithmission.org or to Trellis Supportive Care, 101 Hospice Ln., Winston-Salem, NC 27103, www.trellissupport.org. My God and I Music & Lyrics: Austris A. Wihtol, 1932 My God and I go in the fields together, We walk and talk as good friends should and do; We clasp our hands, our voices ring with laughter, My God and I walk through the meadow's hue. ... My God and I will go for aye together, We'll walk and talk as good friends should and do; This earth will pass, and with it common trifles, But God and I will go unendingly.

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