Ralph Barry

Thursday, March 4, 1999

Former Hastings resident Ralph Barry, 80, of Pendleton, S.C., died
Thursday, March 4, 1999, at his home.

Services are 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in
Pendleton with the Rev. Thomas D. Timlin officiating. Burial will be
in Missionary Baptist Cemetery at Meadows of Dan in
Virginia. Sullivan-King Mortuary of Anderson, S.C., is in charge of
arrangements.

Mr. Barry was born June 14, 1918, to Thomas Jennings and Lillian Mable
(Pontzius) Barry in Blair. He moved with his family to Hastings at an
early age. He graduated from Hastings Senior High School. On Aug. 27,
1941, he married Ruth Ann Vreeland in Hastings. He served the
U.S. Navy from 1937, until retiring in 1960. He served aboard the USS
Saratoga and USS Franklin serving in World War II and the Korean
War. He received a Bronze Star. He was a retired engineer with
Hercules Powder Plant.

He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church.

Survivors are his wife; two sons, Ralph Brian of Zephurhills, Fla.,
and Dixon Joseph of Anderson; one daughter, Martha Ann Niedjela of
Stuart, Va.; one brother, William M. "Bill" Barry of Hastings; one
sister, Arline Merrill of Lakewood, Calif.; and seven grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by one son, Philip Thomas; two brothers and
two sisters.

Memorials may be given to American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 1741,
Greenwood, S.C. 29646.

The Hastings Tribune, Wednesday, March 10, 1999
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