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Obituary of Claudia Lee Barr
Claudia Lee Barr
1935 - 2016
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Claudia Lee Barr September 17, 1935 - May 11, 2016 Funeral services for Claudia Lee Barr, 80, of Lovington, NM will be held on Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 1:00 pm at First Assembly of God Church with Pastor Daniel O’Doherty officiating. Burial will follow at Lovington Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Kirby-Smith-Rogers Funeral Home. Mrs. Barr was born on September 17, 1935 to Rudolph Clayton Houston and Ola Lorena Blankenship in Gladiola, NM and passed away on May 11, 2016 Lubbock, TX. She married Leslie Barr in Tatum, NM on January 9, 1952 and they have shared sixty four years of life together. Claudia loved to sing, dance, go fishing, and enjoyed football. She loved to sew and quilt blankets. She liked to do family trees and geneology. She was preceded in death by her parents;
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Q&A: Claudia Barr
It all started in January 2006, when WMC-TV Channel 5 covered the Winter Olympics. With the station's 10 p.m. news broadcast running late, some regular viewers switched to other stations.
Apparently, those who switched to WREG-TV Channel 3 liked what they saw, because starting last February, for the first time, that station nudged ahead of longtime winner Channel 5 in the ratings battle — and it's held first place in the 10 p.m. slot ever since.
Now, we aren't saying Claudia Barr, who became Richard Ransom's co-anchor in January 2006, is the sole reason that Channel 3 took the lead. And Barr herself certainly gives credit all around. We interviewed this native Memphian and broadcast veteran — who started out in radio, moved on to become anchor at WHBQ-TV Channel 13 for 24 years, and worked briefly in real estate before joining the WREG team — to find out what led her into TV journalism.
We hear you were Miss Booker T. Washington High School.
I was! I grew up in the Hamilton High area but it was a dream of mine to attend BTW High. Teachers ther
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Public outpouring touches WREG anchor Claudia Barr
Memphians who turn on the nightly news will soon miss a familiar face when Claudia Barr signs off the air for the last time Wednesday.
Barr has anchored the 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. WREG-TV broadcasts since 2006, although she's been in the media business for nearly 40 years. Barr has a background in radio — before she joined the television world, she began her career in the radio industry with WDIA and WREC. Prior to joining WREG, she worked as a reporter at WHBQ-TV.
"I'm basically a shy person," Barr said. "I never wanted to really do TV, I liked radio because you could hide."
Barr also had a brief stint in the real estate business in 2004 which she described as "very unsuccessful" because she just wasn't a salesperson.
"When people asked me a question, I would give them an honest answer," she said.
When Barr announced her retirement on Nov. 14, social media was flooded with well wishes for the news veteran.
"Your professionalism and commitment to telling the whole story will be sorely missed," one viewer posted to her F
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