Lawrence A. Barrett, Jr., World War II CasualtyPorter County Data on World War II Casualties . . . .
Lawrence A. Barrett, Junior
Lieutenant, US Army Air Corps
Date of Birth: November 3, 1917
Date of Death: November 12, 1941
Burial: St. Paul's Cemetery, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana
Cause of Death: Aircraft Crash (transporting airplane across US)
Date of Enlistment: November 25, 1940
Hometown: Blachly's Corners
Newspaper Notices:
Plan Service For Aviator
Body of Lieut. Lawrence A. Barrett, Jr., Arrives In Gary Today.
The body of Lieut. Lawrence A. Barrett, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A.
Garrett, SR., living seven miles west of Valparaiso on U. S. 30, arrived in Gary
this morning from Yuma, Arizona, and was taken to the Williams and Burns funeral
chapel in Gary.
The Rosary service will be held Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in the Williams and
Burns Chapel.
Solemn requiem high mass will be conducted Thursday morning at St. Mary's of the
Lake church at Miller, Gary, with Rev. Father Francis X. Guerre, pastor of St.
Paul's Roman Catholic church of this city, former pastor of St. Mary's and close
friend of the family, acting as celebrant. He will be assisted by Rev. J. H.
Conway, pastor of St. Mary's, and another priest. Burial will be in St. Paul's
cemetery, Valparaiso.
At the time of his death in a crash near Yuma, Arizona, on November 12, 1941
Lieut. Barrett was flying a DB-7 plane for the army command, with order to fly
the ship to the east coast, from where it would be taken over by British flyers
for service overseas. His body was not found until Dec. 19 last. He was based at
Long Beach, Calif.
Young Barrett, who was 24 years of age, is survived by his widow, living in
Detroit, who is expected to arrive in Gary tomorrow, and his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence Barrett, Sr., of near Wheeler. A brother, preceded him in death
last spring. The dead aviator was a graduate of Notre Dame in the class of 1940.
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Source: The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana;
December 29, 1942; Volume 16, Page 1 Column 5
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Information abstracted and transcribed by Steven R. Shook