Barbara Doris Hart-Cink

Barbara went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. Born Barbara Doris Henson on July 26, 1938, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, she became the first child of Doris Wilhelmina and Carl Kenneth (Duby) Henson.

Barbara graduated high school from Chandler, Oklahoma where she was active in high school debate, drama and was a majorette. This was also where she met and fell in love with her first husband, Edward Earl Hart. After graduation Barbara took a job in Oklahoma City at Oklahoma Natural Gas where she was a switchboard operator. She experienced life on her own living at the YWCA until she got married. Together Barbara and Ed had four daughters, Melinda, Sherry, Christy, and Vicky.

While Barbara attended some college and spent many years working in a doctor’s office she and her husband Ed eventually founded New Covenant United Methodist Church in Edmond, Oklahoma, where she directed the choir, taught Sunday School classes, and performed with her husband and children. In total they served four different parishes. They were married for 30 years. Upon the passing of her first husband in 1988, Barbara took a job at Oklahoma City University where she served as an Assistant Director of Music.

Later in life, Barbara married Donald James Cink, becoming Mrs. Barbara Hart-Cink in 1991. Moving to Medford, Oklahoma to begin married life once more, she began a season full of new adventures. Barbara and Don shared 27 years together as a married couple before Don’s passing in 2018.

Barbara was preceded in death by her parents Doris and “Duby” Henson, late- husbands Edward Earl Hart and Donald James Cink, and stepson Steven Keith Cink. She is survived by her sister Judy Tro-Mott; four daughters, Melinda Cink, Sherry Honeyman, Christy Hart, and Vicky Bauer; two stepchildren, Kathy Flaherty and Greg Cink; 12 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and 4 great-great grandchildren.