OBIT: Fred D. BARKER, 1918, Ebensburg, Cambria County, PA

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Altoona Times
Altoona, Pa.
Friday Morning, 1 Nov 1918


LIEUT BAKER [sic] GIVES LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY

A cablegram was received in Johnstown last night confirming the 
report received on Wednesday night that Lieutenant Fred D. Barker, son 
of Judge A. V. Barker of Ebensburg, had been killed in France.

The telegram, dated Paris, Oct. 27, states that Lieutenant Fred 
Barker of Bradentown, Florida, a member of the American Red Cross 
headquarters station, had been killed by a bursting shell while helping 
to bring a soldier in from the firing line.

The message states further that Lieutenant Barker and [had] narrowly 
escaped death two weeks previously when a shell struck the automobile 
in which he was riding with Captain Harris of the Red Cross, killing 
the driver and Captain Harris and demolishing the automobile.  
Lieutenant Barker gave up his practice as a lawyer to enter Red Cross 
work and had been in France for four months.  Some delay was occasioned 
in getting the word to Johnstown, owing to the fact that he had entered 
the service from the winter home of the Barkers in Florida.

Lieutenant Barker was the only son of Judge A. V. Barker, former 
judge of the Cambria county courts, and resided in Ebensburg.  He was 
aged 40 years and is survived by his wife and three children, Barbara 
and Billy with their mother in Ebensburg; Vinton, a cadet in the 
Annapolis Naval academy.

Lieutenant Barker was one of Cambria county's foremost young men and 
enjoyed a wide practice in his chosen profession.  He was held in high 
esteem in Cambria county, where he was known to practically everybody, 
all of whom will learn with much regret of his untimely death.  His 
bereaved wife and children have the sympathy of the entire community.