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HOMEPAGE | HEADLINES | OPINIONS | POLICE BLOTTER | OBITUARIES | SPORTS   Obituaries for the week ending June 6, 2003     Keith W. Barnard Longtime Ventura County resident, Keith W. Barnard, 76, died Mondy, May 26, 2003 in Ventura, following a lengthy illness. He was born Oct. 30, 1926 in Ventura, to Morris and Ruth Barnard. He was educated in Ventura schools and graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles with a bachelor of science degree in agriculture. He married Ruth "Mousie" Virden Shutt in 1950. Mr. Barnard was a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps. He was a member of the Los Rancheros Visitadores, Ventura County Mounted Sheriff's Posse, American Legion and Ventura Farm Bureau. He was chairman of the Ventura County General Hospital Advisory Committee, vice chairman of the Ventura County Agricultural Stabilization Committee, chairman of the Republican Central Committee, vice chairman of two mutual water companies, president of the Taxpayers' Association, and president of the Fillmore-Piru Protective District. Mr. Barnard was on the board of directors of Sunkist, Ojai Tapo, Brigg's Lemon, Santa Paula Orange, Fruit Growers' Supply and Ventura Pacific. He was also a member of the Fillmore Club, Fillmore Junior Chamber, Fillmore Dance Club and was a Fillmore volunteer firefighter. His interests included hunting, fishing and traveling. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, "Mousie"; son and daughter-in-law Steve and Shelly Barnard; sister Carolyn Van Bokkelen of San Mateo; brother and sister-in-law Charles and Margaret Barnard of Los Angeles; four grandchildren; and one great-grandson. The family would like to thank the staff at Treacy Villa Residential Care Facility in Ventura and also to Hospice for their care. Funeral services will be held Monday, June 9, at 11 a.m. in the Chapel of the Joseph P. Reardon Funeral Home in Ventura. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, 1339 Del Norte Road, Camarillo, CA 93010. Arrangements were under the direction of Joseph P. Reardon Funeral Home, Ventura   Marcia Oakes Sanborn Marcia Oakes Sanborn, 92, of Ojai, died peacefully at home on May 30, 2003. She was born July 10, 1910 in New York City, N.Y. Upon her father's retirement from his New York medical practice in 1925, the family returned to the Oakes family home in South Berwick, Maine. She graduated from Berwick Academy in 1929 and lives in South Berwick until moving to Ventura County in 1949, when she married Willis Sanborn, a supervisor at the Pacific Missile Test Center at Point Mugu. Mrs. Sanborn is survived by her nephew, Abner Oakes, and family of Hamden, Conn.; and many cousins, among them, Bobbi Dufau and family of Ojai, Dr. Charles Berletti of Martinez, Calif., and Marion Inchaustegui of Downingtown, Pa.; and all the members of the Sheil and Sanborn families. She was preceded in death by her husband, Willis Sanborn; her parents, Dr. Charles and Marcella Sheil Oakes; and her brother, Dr. Abner Oakes. Private interment will be at Ivy Lawn Cementery in Ventura. Arrangements are under the direction of Clausen Funeral Home in Ojai.