Ralph Max Barr (2001)

BARR, THOMAS, SLAVENS, HIBBS

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 3/26/2007 at 07:43:00

Winterset Madisonian - January 2001
Winterset, Iowa

Ralph Max Barr, 80, died from complications of brain lesions Jan. 3, 2001, at the Community Care Center in Stuart.

Funeral services were held Saturday, Jan. 6, at the Stuart Congregational Church with the Rev. George Thurman officiating. Burial was at South Oak Grove Cemetery, Stuart.

Max Barr was born Feb. 13, 1920, in Penn Township, Madison County, to D. Melvin and Myrtle E. (Thomas) Barr. A 1938 graduate of Dexter High School, he was a United States Army veteran of World War II. On Jan. 29, 1944, he married Martha Slavens of Stuart at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. Having lived in the Dexter and Stuart areas for most of his life, Max retired from farming in 1983 and moved to Diamond City, Ark., where he and Martha resided until 1989. Following his wife's death, he returned to live in Stuart. He was a member of the Stuart Congregational Church and a 46-year member of Stuart American Legion Post 146.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife and two brothers.

He is survived by a son, Gary Barr(wife Lorraine) of Mesa, Ariz.; a sister, Helen Hibbs of Earlham; a brother, Charles Hoyt Barr (wife Alta) of Redfield; two grandsons; and a great granddaughter.

Funeral arrangements were handled by Kuhn Funeral Homes of Dexter and Earlham.