Criminal, Son of Ma Barker. After being paroled from Leavenworth Prison, where he was serving a 25-year prison term, he worked as a cook in a POW Camp at Ft. Custer, Michigan, during WWII and received an Honorable Discharge from the army. He married and worked as assistant manager of a bar and grill in Denver, Colorado. On 18 March 1949, his wife shot and killed him in their home in Westminster, Colorado. She was subsequently placed in an insane asylum.
He is buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Brighton, Colorado, and has a cenotaph at Williams Timberhill Cemetery in Welch, Oklahoma.
Criminal, Son of Ma Barker. After being paroled from Leavenworth Prison, where he was serving a 25-year prison term, he worked as a cook in a POW Camp at Ft. Custer, Michigan, during WWII and received an Honorable Discharge from the army. He married and worked as assistant manager of a bar and grill in Denver, Colorado. On 18 March 1949, his wife shot and killed him in their home in Westminster, Colorado. She was subsequently placed in an insane asylum.
He is buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Brighton, Colorado, and has a cenotaph at Williams Timberhill Cemetery in Welch, Oklahoma.
Inscription
"Daddy"
Lloyd Williams "Red" Barker
Son of George & Arizona D. *Kate* Barker
March 16, 1898 - Missouri- March 18, 1949 - Colorado
Went Straight. But, too was killed by a gun.
He will have judgement, He paid the price.
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