Barnett, Virginia Bunker, 1918-1999

Mariam Virginia Bunker was born in 1918 to Eugene F. Bunker, Jr., a leading attorney in Bozeman Montana and Mariam Cooper Bunker, the only child of prominent Bozeman Montana pioneer Walter Cooper. Her sister Elizabeth Frances Bunker was born in 1920 and her brother Eugene F. Bunker, Jr. was born in 1928. Virginia was raised in Bozeman and married Edmund S. Barnett, moving to Lafayette, California where he was an attorney. She died in March of 1999 at the age of 80.

From the guide to the Virginia Bunker Barnett Papers, 1941-1966, (Montana State University-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections)

Virginia Barnett was a friend of Mark Tobey's. Her husband, Arthur, was Tobey's attorney and it is through this contact that the trio developed a friendship.

From the description of Virginia Barnett papers, ca. 1950-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502598

From the description of Virginia Barnett papers concerning Mark Tobey, ca. 1950-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 710018029

Mariam Virginia Bunker was born in 1918 to Eugene F. Bunker, Sr., a leading attorney in Bozeman, Mont., and Mariam Cooper Bunker, the only child of prominent Bozeman pioneer Walter Cooper. Her sister Elizabeth (Betty) Frances Bunker was born in 1920 and her brother Eugene (Gene) F. Bunker, Jr., was born in 1928. Virginia was raised in Bozeman and married Edmund S. Barnett, moving to Lafayette, Calif., where he was an attorney. She died in Mar. 1999 at the age of eighty.

From the description of Virginia Bunker Barnett papers, 1941-1966. (Montana State University Bozeman Library). WorldCat record id: 71009790