Maurice F. Barrett 1913-1984

BARRETT, BROWN, JOHNSTON, KILBOURNE

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 4/23/2012 at 19:03:04

Maurice Barrett
Estherville – Services for Maurice F .Barrett, 70, were held today at 1:30 p.m.at the Henry and Olson Funeral Home with Pastor Danville Swanson of the Union Baptist Church officiating. Interment was in Oak Hill Cemetery. He died Thursday, Jan. 19, 1984 at Holy Family Hospital.

Barrett was born June 10, 1913 in Audubon County, the son of Frank and Alice (Johnston) Barrett. He moved with his parents to Des Moines as a small child and received his education in the Des Moines schools. On Feb. 22, 1947 he was united in marriage with Dorothy Brown at Audubon. The couple moved to Estherville in April, 1949. Barrett was a truck driver and substitute mail hauler for several years after which he was employed by Fagre Construction Co. and later Rohlin Construction Co. until his retirement in 1974.

Survivors include his wife, Dorothy, Estherville; one brother Harley Barrett, Cape Canaveral, Fla.; one sister, Mrs. Earl (Geraldine) Kilbourne, Deltona, Fla.

He was preceded in death by his parents. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, January 23, 1984)