Obituary: Barbara Booth Ryan

Barbara Booth Ryan–lawyer, wife, mother, sister, cousin, BB, pianist, and friend died peacefully on September 7th, 2022. Barbara was born September 13, 1949 to Ewell Booth and Bette Johnson Booth, in Wesley Hospital in Oklahoma City, and grew up in Midwest City. After high school (Midwest City High School class of ’67), she married David Poarch and with him had two sons, Nathan, and Tyler. Barbara earned a bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education from Central State University and her Law Degree from the University of Oklahoma. Thus, Barbara began a legal career spanning decades, principally as a state district attorney in Cleveland County and then as a federal prosecutor in the Western District of Oklahoma.