DALLAS, Sept. 5 (AP) — L.C. Barrow, the last surviving brother of Clyde and Buck Barrow, who became notorious in the 1930's when they and Bonnie Parker were accused of robbing several banks in which at least 15 persons were killed, died Monday at a hospital in Athens, Tex. He was 66 years old.
Mr. Barrow was in prison briefly in the 1930's and again in the 50's, but he was never accused of the violent crimes attributed to his brothers. He was a truck driver who retired because of poor health after working 13 years for the Overhead Door Company of Texas.
He was born on Aug. 13, 1913, one of six children of sharecroppers on a farm near Midlothian, Tex.
Buck Barrow was killed in 1933 in a shoot‐out with the police in Iowa. Clyde Barrow, Miss Parker and another man escaped in that exploit, but Bonnie and Clyde's crime spree ended nearly a year later, when they were killed in a police ambush in Louisiana.
Another brother, Jack Barrow, was convicted of a barroom murder in 1930 and sentenced to 99 years in prison. He died later of a heart attack. Two Barrow sisters, Marie and Artie, are still alive, but family members declined to say where they lived. New York Times September 6, 1979, Section D, Page 21
DALLAS, Sept. 5 (AP) — L.C. Barrow, the last surviving brother of Clyde and Buck Barrow, who became notorious in the 1930's when they and Bonnie Parker were accused of robbing several banks in which at least 15 persons were killed, died Monday at a hospital in Athens, Tex. He was 66 years old.
Mr. Barrow was in prison briefly in the 1930's and again in the 50's, but he was never accused of the violent crimes attributed to his brothers. He was a truck driver who retired because of poor health after working 13 years for the Overhead Door Company of Texas.
He was born on Aug. 13, 1913, one of six children of sharecroppers on a farm near Midlothian, Tex.
Buck Barrow was killed in 1933 in a shoot‐out with the police in Iowa. Clyde Barrow, Miss Parker and another man escaped in that exploit, but Bonnie and Clyde's crime spree ended nearly a year later, when they were killed in a police ambush in Louisiana.
Another brother, Jack Barrow, was convicted of a barroom murder in 1930 and sentenced to 99 years in prison. He died later of a heart attack. Two Barrow sisters, Marie and Artie, are still alive, but family members declined to say where they lived. New York Times September 6, 1979, Section D, Page 21
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