Golfer, artist, steadfast idealist, exemplary mother. Alva Joy Barrett, a woman of diverse accomplishments and commitments, died at the age of 90, in San Diego, Calif, where she spent her final years in a retirement community, close to her daughter's family.
Born in Oak Park, IL, Joy Barrett was the only daughter of Gertrude Morris Musselman and Alvin Jay Musselman, an early 20th Century entrepreneur and inventor who pioneered development of the aircraft donut tire and the frictionless bicycle coaster brake.
Musselman taught his daughter the game of golf at a very early age, and she quickly blossomed into a championship player winning numerous golfing trophies in tournaments throughout the Midwest. Joy played golf well into her seventies. Joy was drawn to art early in life through the influence of her mother and brother, Hollywood screenwriter Morris M. Musselman.
She attended Kent State University in 1932, where she majored in art and developed a talent for watercolor painting. She painted well into her eighties. Examples of her artwork are displayed in her many children's, grandchildren's and friends' homes. However, none of these pursuits overshadowed Joy's resolute devotion to her family. Shortly after WW II, Joy was busy raising her three sons from her first marriage to John Salter. She remarried in 1948 to Darwin Barrett.
Darwin, previously married to Molly Bruce, had two children, a daughter and son. The newly combined family took up residence in Santa Barbara, Calif. Joy and Darwin added two more daughters to what was already a boisterous combination. But, drawing upon their great sense of humor, reserves of patience, and plenty of tough-love, Joy and Darwin successfully united the clans into a unified and loving whole. In the early 1950s, Joy and Darwin joined the John Birch Society. Alarmed by her perception that American society was being undermined by communist ideology.
Their mutual involvement in that organization launched a 50 year-long devotion to conservative principles and American nationalism. After more then 50 years of marriage, Joy's husband Darwin, passed away in 2001.
Survivors include her daughters, Shari Irwin and Andrea McCarren; sons, Jay, Ron and John Salter and Darwin Barrett IV; 11 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
Services noon tomorrow, Monte Vista Lodge, 2211 Massachusetts Ave., Lemon Grove. Inurnment Singing Hills Memorial Park, 2800 Dehesa Road, El Cajon. Arrangements Goodbody Mortuary. Published in U-T San Diego on July 22, 2005
Born in Oak Park, IL, Joy Barrett was the only daughter of Gertrude Morris Musselman and Alvin Jay Musselman, an early 20th Century entrepreneur and inventor who pioneered development of the aircraft donut tire and the frictionless bicycle coaster brake.
Musselman taught his daughter the game of golf at a very early age, and she quickly blossomed into a championship player winning numerous golfing trophies in tournaments throughout the Midwest. Joy played golf well into her seventies. Joy was drawn to art early in life through the influence of her mother and brother, Hollywood screenwriter Morris M. Musselman.
She attended Kent State University in 1932, where she majored in art and developed a talent for watercolor painting. She painted well into her eighties. Examples of her artwork are displayed in her many children's, grandchildren's and friends' homes. However, none of these pursuits overshadowed Joy's resolute devotion to her family. Shortly after WW II, Joy was busy raising her three sons from her first marriage to John Salter. She remarried in 1948 to Darwin Barrett.
Darwin, previously married to Molly Bruce, had two children, a daughter and son. The newly combined family took up residence in Santa Barbara, Calif. Joy and Darwin added two more daughters to what was already a boisterous combination. But, drawing upon their great sense of humor, reserves of patience, and plenty of tough-love, Joy and Darwin successfully united the clans into a unified and loving whole. In the early 1950s, Joy and Darwin joined the John Birch Society. Alarmed by her perception that American society was being undermined by communist ideology.
Their mutual involvement in that organization launched a 50 year-long devotion to conservative principles and American nationalism. After more then 50 years of marriage, Joy's husband Darwin, passed away in 2001.
Survivors include her daughters, Shari Irwin and Andrea McCarren; sons, Jay, Ron and John Salter and Darwin Barrett IV; 11 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
Services noon tomorrow, Monte Vista Lodge, 2211 Massachusetts Ave., Lemon Grove. Inurnment Singing Hills Memorial Park, 2800 Dehesa Road, El Cajon. Arrangements Goodbody Mortuary. Published in U-T San Diego on July 22, 2005
Golfer, artist, steadfast idealist, exemplary mother. Alva Joy Barrett, a woman of diverse accomplishments and commitments, died at the age of 90, in San Diego, Calif, where she spent her final years in a retirement community, close to her daughter's family.
Born in Oak Park, IL, Joy Barrett was the only daughter of Gertrude Morris Musselman and Alvin Jay Musselman, an early 20th Century entrepreneur and inventor who pioneered development of the aircraft donut tire and the frictionless bicycle coaster brake.
Musselman taught his daughter the game of golf at a very early age, and she quickly blossomed into a championship player winning numerous golfing trophies in tournaments throughout the Midwest. Joy played golf well into her seventies. Joy was drawn to art early in life through the influence of her mother and brother, Hollywood screenwriter Morris M. Musselman.
She attended Kent State University in 1932, where she majored in art and developed a talent for watercolor painting. She painted well into her eighties. Examples of her artwork are displayed in her many children's, grandchildren's and friends' homes. However, none of these pursuits overshadowed Joy's resolute devotion to her family. Shortly after WW II, Joy was busy raising her three sons from her first marriage to John Salter. She remarried in 1948 to Darwin Barrett.
Darwin, previously married to Molly Bruce, had two children, a daughter and son. The newly combined family took up residence in Santa Barbara, Calif. Joy and Darwin added two more daughters to what was already a boisterous combination. But, drawing upon their great sense of humor, reserves of patience, and plenty of tough-love, Joy and Darwin successfully united the clans into a unified and loving whole. In the early 1950s, Joy and Darwin joined the John Birch Society. Alarmed by her perception that American society was being undermined by communist ideology.
Their mutual involvement in that organization launched a 50 year-long devotion to conservative principles and American nationalism. After more then 50 years of marriage, Joy's husband Darwin, passed away in 2001.
Survivors include her daughters, Shari Irwin and Andrea McCarren; sons, Jay, Ron and John Salter and Darwin Barrett IV; 11 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
Services noon tomorrow, Monte Vista Lodge, 2211 Massachusetts Ave., Lemon Grove. Inurnment Singing Hills Memorial Park, 2800 Dehesa Road, El Cajon. Arrangements Goodbody Mortuary. Published in U-T San Diego on July 22, 2005
Born in Oak Park, IL, Joy Barrett was the only daughter of Gertrude Morris Musselman and Alvin Jay Musselman, an early 20th Century entrepreneur and inventor who pioneered development of the aircraft donut tire and the frictionless bicycle coaster brake.
Musselman taught his daughter the game of golf at a very early age, and she quickly blossomed into a championship player winning numerous golfing trophies in tournaments throughout the Midwest. Joy played golf well into her seventies. Joy was drawn to art early in life through the influence of her mother and brother, Hollywood screenwriter Morris M. Musselman.
She attended Kent State University in 1932, where she majored in art and developed a talent for watercolor painting. She painted well into her eighties. Examples of her artwork are displayed in her many children's, grandchildren's and friends' homes. However, none of these pursuits overshadowed Joy's resolute devotion to her family. Shortly after WW II, Joy was busy raising her three sons from her first marriage to John Salter. She remarried in 1948 to Darwin Barrett.
Darwin, previously married to Molly Bruce, had two children, a daughter and son. The newly combined family took up residence in Santa Barbara, Calif. Joy and Darwin added two more daughters to what was already a boisterous combination. But, drawing upon their great sense of humor, reserves of patience, and plenty of tough-love, Joy and Darwin successfully united the clans into a unified and loving whole. In the early 1950s, Joy and Darwin joined the John Birch Society. Alarmed by her perception that American society was being undermined by communist ideology.
Their mutual involvement in that organization launched a 50 year-long devotion to conservative principles and American nationalism. After more then 50 years of marriage, Joy's husband Darwin, passed away in 2001.
Survivors include her daughters, Shari Irwin and Andrea McCarren; sons, Jay, Ron and John Salter and Darwin Barrett IV; 11 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
Services noon tomorrow, Monte Vista Lodge, 2211 Massachusetts Ave., Lemon Grove. Inurnment Singing Hills Memorial Park, 2800 Dehesa Road, El Cajon. Arrangements Goodbody Mortuary. Published in U-T San Diego on July 22, 2005
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