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True Barbee
GRANBURY - True Barbee, retired
clerk of the district court in Montague County and court reporter in
Tarrant County, died Tuesday at a Granbury hospital. He was 70.
Memorial service will be at 10 a.m.
today at Martin's Funeral Home in Granbury. Burial will be in Montague
Cemetery in Montague.
Mr. Barbee was born in Clarendon. He
was a former Denton resident and had lived in Granbury since 1982. He
was an Army paratrooper in World War II.
Mr. Barbee was a member of the
American Association of Retired Persons, Shanley House Dancers, the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Order of the Eastern Star and was a Mason.
He was a board member of the Hood County Committee on Aging.
The family suggests that memorials
be made to Shanley House or to the van fund at First United Methodist
Church of Granbury.
Survivors: Wife, Millie Bridges
Barbee of Granbury; two stepsons, George Bridges of Mesquite and Bill
Bridges of Las Cruces, N.M.; two brothers, Frank Barbee of Clarendon and
Pete Barbee of Hedley; three sisters, Gertrude Reid and Willie Creager,
both of Clarendon, and Pearlie Advddell of Claude; and four
grandchildren.
(Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth, TX, 2 Apr 1992, Page 2 - courtesy of Tedd Cocker) |
(Courtesy of Wayne Carlisle)
Grave marker for True Barbee in the Montague Cemetery,
Montague (Montague County), Texas
True enlisted at
Dallas, TX; on October 27, 1942 and after volunteering for parachutist
duty he was transferred to the 508th.
T/5 Barbee, a member of Co D, was seriously wounded on October 2,1944 and
after two months in a field hospital was transferred back to the U.S.
for further treatment. He did not return to the regimen.. |
