s/o Paul V Barker Sr and Elsie G (Umpleby) Barker; h/o Theda Joy Dickerson Ballou; and, Patricia Cowper Fortescue
He grew up in Newton MA and attended the local public schools there along with his two brothers, Marshall B Barker and Robert R Barker.
A boy who always loved both dogs and nature, Paul purchased his first pup from a mid-western kennel with newspaper route earnings and had it shipped air freight to MA. Summers, he worked on his great-uncle's farm in Lanesborough MA. He so loved country life that once, he rode his bicycle unaccompanied except for his devoted Springer Spaniel 'Buck', 140 miles in one day just to spend time on the farm.
Just before his eighteenth birthday, he enlisted in the US Marine Corps and, after completing infantry training, he attended and graduated from War Dog Training School. Working with Doberman pinschers, he served during WWII in Panama as a submarine base and navel ammunitions depot guard. When his tour ended, he was discharged and returned to civilian life, forever enriched by the Corps' training and discipline. Semper fidelis!
After leaving the USMC, Paul bought his first motorcycle, a 1947 Indian, which he rode cross-country to California in two weeks, camping along the way and experiencing the scenery. With that trip, began Paul's life-long passion for motorcycles.
In 1948, he married Patricia Cowper Fortescue, whom he had known since childhood through his friendship with her brother Peter C Fortescue, and with whom he had his four children. As a young father, Paul labored at day jobs and attended night classes while working toward his college degree, a BS Business Management in Construction Engineering which was awarded in 1954 from Northeastern University in Boston MA. During his working career, he was a Senior Project Manager for the GBH Macomber Company of Boston MA.
After retiring in 1991, Paul finally moved north to join his dear wife at 'The Birches', their picturesque home in Hill NH. Regrettably, Pat passed away of cancer in 1992 leaving him alone and bereft after 44 years of marriage.
In 1993, he met and married his second wife, Theda Joy Dickerson Ballou, with whom he shared nineteen loving years before she too passed away of cancer.
During retirement, Paul occupied much of his time gardening barefoot, target and skeet shooting, training and working his bird dogs, reading historical biographies, discussing salient points on society and economics, watching old movies, history and antiques shows, and communing with nature through activities such as motorcycle riding, canoeing, hiking, camping, and photography.
Since October 2016, Paul resided at the NH Veterans Home in Tilton NH where he was cared for with great kindness, compassion, and dignity by NHVH's skilled and dedicated professional staff.
Paul is outlived by his dear friend and sweetheart, Marion Cameron of Arlington MA and New Brunswick NS, a woman for whom he had deep affection and with whom he shared many wonderful memories.
He is survived by his two sons; grandchildren. Sadly, Paul is predeceased by his two cherished daughters, Susan Sanborn Barker and Robin Barker Purnell.
Paul's cremains will be ensconced in a niche at the NH State Veterans Cemetery.
He grew up in Newton MA and attended the local public schools there along with his two brothers, Marshall B Barker and Robert R Barker.
A boy who always loved both dogs and nature, Paul purchased his first pup from a mid-western kennel with newspaper route earnings and had it shipped air freight to MA. Summers, he worked on his great-uncle's farm in Lanesborough MA. He so loved country life that once, he rode his bicycle unaccompanied except for his devoted Springer Spaniel 'Buck', 140 miles in one day just to spend time on the farm.
Just before his eighteenth birthday, he enlisted in the US Marine Corps and, after completing infantry training, he attended and graduated from War Dog Training School. Working with Doberman pinschers, he served during WWII in Panama as a submarine base and navel ammunitions depot guard. When his tour ended, he was discharged and returned to civilian life, forever enriched by the Corps' training and discipline. Semper fidelis!
After leaving the USMC, Paul bought his first motorcycle, a 1947 Indian, which he rode cross-country to California in two weeks, camping along the way and experiencing the scenery. With that trip, began Paul's life-long passion for motorcycles.
In 1948, he married Patricia Cowper Fortescue, whom he had known since childhood through his friendship with her brother Peter C Fortescue, and with whom he had his four children. As a young father, Paul labored at day jobs and attended night classes while working toward his college degree, a BS Business Management in Construction Engineering which was awarded in 1954 from Northeastern University in Boston MA. During his working career, he was a Senior Project Manager for the GBH Macomber Company of Boston MA.
After retiring in 1991, Paul finally moved north to join his dear wife at 'The Birches', their picturesque home in Hill NH. Regrettably, Pat passed away of cancer in 1992 leaving him alone and bereft after 44 years of marriage.
In 1993, he met and married his second wife, Theda Joy Dickerson Ballou, with whom he shared nineteen loving years before she too passed away of cancer.
During retirement, Paul occupied much of his time gardening barefoot, target and skeet shooting, training and working his bird dogs, reading historical biographies, discussing salient points on society and economics, watching old movies, history and antiques shows, and communing with nature through activities such as motorcycle riding, canoeing, hiking, camping, and photography.
Since October 2016, Paul resided at the NH Veterans Home in Tilton NH where he was cared for with great kindness, compassion, and dignity by NHVH's skilled and dedicated professional staff.
Paul is outlived by his dear friend and sweetheart, Marion Cameron of Arlington MA and New Brunswick NS, a woman for whom he had deep affection and with whom he shared many wonderful memories.
He is survived by his two sons; grandchildren. Sadly, Paul is predeceased by his two cherished daughters, Susan Sanborn Barker and Robin Barker Purnell.
Paul's cremains will be ensconced in a niche at the NH State Veterans Cemetery.
s/o Paul V Barker Sr and Elsie G (Umpleby) Barker; h/o Theda Joy Dickerson Ballou; and, Patricia Cowper Fortescue
He grew up in Newton MA and attended the local public schools there along with his two brothers, Marshall B Barker and Robert R Barker.
A boy who always loved both dogs and nature, Paul purchased his first pup from a mid-western kennel with newspaper route earnings and had it shipped air freight to MA. Summers, he worked on his great-uncle's farm in Lanesborough MA. He so loved country life that once, he rode his bicycle unaccompanied except for his devoted Springer Spaniel 'Buck', 140 miles in one day just to spend time on the farm.
Just before his eighteenth birthday, he enlisted in the US Marine Corps and, after completing infantry training, he attended and graduated from War Dog Training School. Working with Doberman pinschers, he served during WWII in Panama as a submarine base and navel ammunitions depot guard. When his tour ended, he was discharged and returned to civilian life, forever enriched by the Corps' training and discipline. Semper fidelis!
After leaving the USMC, Paul bought his first motorcycle, a 1947 Indian, which he rode cross-country to California in two weeks, camping along the way and experiencing the scenery. With that trip, began Paul's life-long passion for motorcycles.
In 1948, he married Patricia Cowper Fortescue, whom he had known since childhood through his friendship with her brother Peter C Fortescue, and with whom he had his four children. As a young father, Paul labored at day jobs and attended night classes while working toward his college degree, a BS Business Management in Construction Engineering which was awarded in 1954 from Northeastern University in Boston MA. During his working career, he was a Senior Project Manager for the GBH Macomber Company of Boston MA.
After retiring in 1991, Paul finally moved north to join his dear wife at 'The Birches', their picturesque home in Hill NH. Regrettably, Pat passed away of cancer in 1992 leaving him alone and bereft after 44 years of marriage.
In 1993, he met and married his second wife, Theda Joy Dickerson Ballou, with whom he shared nineteen loving years before she too passed away of cancer.
During retirement, Paul occupied much of his time gardening barefoot, target and skeet shooting, training and working his bird dogs, reading historical biographies, discussing salient points on society and economics, watching old movies, history and antiques shows, and communing with nature through activities such as motorcycle riding, canoeing, hiking, camping, and photography.
Since October 2016, Paul resided at the NH Veterans Home in Tilton NH where he was cared for with great kindness, compassion, and dignity by NHVH's skilled and dedicated professional staff.
Paul is outlived by his dear friend and sweetheart, Marion Cameron of Arlington MA and New Brunswick NS, a woman for whom he had deep affection and with whom he shared many wonderful memories.
He is survived by his two sons; grandchildren. Sadly, Paul is predeceased by his two cherished daughters, Susan Sanborn Barker and Robin Barker Purnell.
Paul's cremains will be ensconced in a niche at the NH State Veterans Cemetery.
He grew up in Newton MA and attended the local public schools there along with his two brothers, Marshall B Barker and Robert R Barker.
A boy who always loved both dogs and nature, Paul purchased his first pup from a mid-western kennel with newspaper route earnings and had it shipped air freight to MA. Summers, he worked on his great-uncle's farm in Lanesborough MA. He so loved country life that once, he rode his bicycle unaccompanied except for his devoted Springer Spaniel 'Buck', 140 miles in one day just to spend time on the farm.
Just before his eighteenth birthday, he enlisted in the US Marine Corps and, after completing infantry training, he attended and graduated from War Dog Training School. Working with Doberman pinschers, he served during WWII in Panama as a submarine base and navel ammunitions depot guard. When his tour ended, he was discharged and returned to civilian life, forever enriched by the Corps' training and discipline. Semper fidelis!
After leaving the USMC, Paul bought his first motorcycle, a 1947 Indian, which he rode cross-country to California in two weeks, camping along the way and experiencing the scenery. With that trip, began Paul's life-long passion for motorcycles.
In 1948, he married Patricia Cowper Fortescue, whom he had known since childhood through his friendship with her brother Peter C Fortescue, and with whom he had his four children. As a young father, Paul labored at day jobs and attended night classes while working toward his college degree, a BS Business Management in Construction Engineering which was awarded in 1954 from Northeastern University in Boston MA. During his working career, he was a Senior Project Manager for the GBH Macomber Company of Boston MA.
After retiring in 1991, Paul finally moved north to join his dear wife at 'The Birches', their picturesque home in Hill NH. Regrettably, Pat passed away of cancer in 1992 leaving him alone and bereft after 44 years of marriage.
In 1993, he met and married his second wife, Theda Joy Dickerson Ballou, with whom he shared nineteen loving years before she too passed away of cancer.
During retirement, Paul occupied much of his time gardening barefoot, target and skeet shooting, training and working his bird dogs, reading historical biographies, discussing salient points on society and economics, watching old movies, history and antiques shows, and communing with nature through activities such as motorcycle riding, canoeing, hiking, camping, and photography.
Since October 2016, Paul resided at the NH Veterans Home in Tilton NH where he was cared for with great kindness, compassion, and dignity by NHVH's skilled and dedicated professional staff.
Paul is outlived by his dear friend and sweetheart, Marion Cameron of Arlington MA and New Brunswick NS, a woman for whom he had deep affection and with whom he shared many wonderful memories.
He is survived by his two sons; grandchildren. Sadly, Paul is predeceased by his two cherished daughters, Susan Sanborn Barker and Robin Barker Purnell.
Paul's cremains will be ensconced in a niche at the NH State Veterans Cemetery.
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