My father served in WWII as a navigator on a B-24 in the European theater. After 50 bombing missions including Ploesti, Romania, he returned to his education and attended UCLA. UCLA did not have a full engineering department at that time so his class attended U.C. Berkeley to complete their degrees. He graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from UCLA. On one of his trips back to Los Angeles he met my mother, Beverly E. Stout. They met on a Greyhound bus traveling on Highway 99 from San Francisco to LA. He noticed that Beverly was using the same sewing basket as his mother. Well, that was all it took. They married in 1951. He served in the Geodetic Survey party that traveled around the United States, surveying government land including Cape Canaveral where his group surveyed the base lines for the launch pads which were later used for the space program. Barbour later worked as a civil engineer for Los Angeles County for many years. It was interesting to go into a building with him. He would look around and check all the building specs. It was a bit unnerving when he would report that the building was not safe because it was not up to code. When we were kids he would take the family for a drive to look at slumps. Slumps were sides of hills that had become unstable and produced a landslide. He also took us to Palos Verdes to see the houses that were slipping into the Pacific Ocean.
He was a gentle and caring man who loved his family.
He was a gentle and caring man who loved his family.
My father served in WWII as a navigator on a B-24 in the European theater. After 50 bombing missions including Ploesti, Romania, he returned to his education and attended UCLA. UCLA did not have a full engineering department at that time so his class attended U.C. Berkeley to complete their degrees. He graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from UCLA. On one of his trips back to Los Angeles he met my mother, Beverly E. Stout. They met on a Greyhound bus traveling on Highway 99 from San Francisco to LA. He noticed that Beverly was using the same sewing basket as his mother. Well, that was all it took. They married in 1951. He served in the Geodetic Survey party that traveled around the United States, surveying government land including Cape Canaveral where his group surveyed the base lines for the launch pads which were later used for the space program. Barbour later worked as a civil engineer for Los Angeles County for many years. It was interesting to go into a building with him. He would look around and check all the building specs. It was a bit unnerving when he would report that the building was not safe because it was not up to code. When we were kids he would take the family for a drive to look at slumps. Slumps were sides of hills that had become unstable and produced a landslide. He also took us to Palos Verdes to see the houses that were slipping into the Pacific Ocean.
He was a gentle and caring man who loved his family.
He was a gentle and caring man who loved his family.
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