Leelanau County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Barrett, Thomas J. 
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Cemetery:           Maple Grove - Empire
Name:               Thomas J. Barrett

Date Of Photograph: July 10, 2006
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Thomas J. Barrett   b. 16 June 1913   d. 21 Apr. 2004
COL US AIR FORCE
WORLD WAR II - KOREA
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Social Security Death Index
Thomas J. Barrett 
SSN: XXX-XX-XXXX  
Last Residence: 49636  Glen Arbor, Leelanau, Michigan, United States of America 
Born: 16 Jun 1913 
Died: 21 Apr 2004 
State (Year) SSN issued: Michigan (1965 ) 
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TRAVERSE CITY RECORD EAGLE --- 24 Apr. 2004 
COLONEL THOMAS J. BARRETT, 90, died on Wednesday, April 21, 2004, at Grand 
Traverse Pavilions in Traverse City.
      A full obituary will appear in a later edition of the Record-Eagle.
      Arrangements are pending with the Traverse City Chapel of Covell Funeral 
Homes.
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TRAVERSE CITY RECORD EAGLE --- 28 Apr. 2004 
     GLEN ARBOR - A memorial service will be held in June for Colonel Thomas J. 
Barrett of Glen Arbor, who passed away April 21, 2004, at The Grand Traverse 
Pavilions in Traverse City.
      He was born June 13, 1913, in Kenton, Ohio, to Harry and Grace Barrett. 
On Jan. 4, 1941, near Selfridge Air Force Base, he married Marjorie Balk, who 
survives.
      After graduating from Ohio State University in 1934, Tom began his 30-
year service with the U. S. Air Force as a pilot, air base commander and 
commandant of ROTC. He flew on numerous missions, defended the Panama Canal 
Zone during World War II, was stationed in Japan during the post-war era and 
also spent four years at the Pentagon.
      Tom and his family built a summer home on Glen Lake in 1954 and moved 
there permanently in 1962.
      Along with Marjorie, his wife and co-pilot of 63 years, surviving are his 
children, Thomas J. (Diane) Barrett Jr. of Denver, Colo., and Linda B. (Thomas) 
Pouncey of Empire, and three grandchildren.
      He was preceded in death by his mother, father and three sisters.
      Arrangements have been entrusted to Covell Funeral Homes.


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