Information is from Burial/Death records at LCHS. NOTE: Burial: Sep. 3, 1938, Age: 57.
Lancaster (PA) New Era, Thursday, 1 Sep 1938, pg. 3.
"ROSS BARR, 55, DIES SUDDENLY.
Veteran Printer Was Employee of the New Era For 40 Years.
Stricken with a heart attack, Ross Franklin Barr, 408 South Ann street, for forty years and employee of the Lancaster New Era, fell dead in the bedroom of his home shortly before 7 o'clock this morning. He was fifty-five years old.
Apparently in good health, Mr. Barr was on duty yesterday and last evening attended a motion picture show. Shortly after 5 o'clock this morning he arose and complained of a sharp pain in his chest. Mrs. Edward H. Burritt, Philadelphia, his only daughter advised him to return to bed. Slightly less than two hours later he arose again and collapsed.
Dr. A. V. Walter, the county coroner, conducted a routine investigation.
Born in Greenland, Lancaster county September 14, 1883, Mr. Barr entered the employ of the Lancaster Examiner on July 27, 1898 as a copy boy. He learned the printing trade and when the Examiner merged with the New Era he continued his work in the composing room and was foeman for a number of years.
Mr. Barr was widely known as a song leader and frequently conducted the community son services held on the prison grounds and aided with the spiritual services conducted in the Prison for men and women. He also frequently led the singing at Y. M. C. A. mass meetings. He was a member of Covenant United Brethren church, the Knights of Malta and Royal Arcanum.
His parents and wife are dead. One daughter, Mrs. Burrit, of Philadelphia, who was with him when he died and one granddaughter survive. Surviving also are: three brothers, Homer and Chester, Lancaster; Clarence, Reading and one sister, Edith Barr, Lancaster.
The funeral will be held Saturday with brief services at 1:30 o'clock in the Groff funerals parlors, West Orange street. Further services will be held at 2 o'clock in the Covenant United Brethren church. Interment will be in Riverview cemetery. Friends may call at the Groff funeral parlors Friday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock."
NOTE: The death certificate has the wrong year of birth. WWI Draft Registration and the 1900 Census list birth year 1883.
Lancaster (PA) New Era, Thursday, 1 Sep 1938, pg. 3.
"ROSS BARR, 55, DIES SUDDENLY.
Veteran Printer Was Employee of the New Era For 40 Years.
Stricken with a heart attack, Ross Franklin Barr, 408 South Ann street, for forty years and employee of the Lancaster New Era, fell dead in the bedroom of his home shortly before 7 o'clock this morning. He was fifty-five years old.
Apparently in good health, Mr. Barr was on duty yesterday and last evening attended a motion picture show. Shortly after 5 o'clock this morning he arose and complained of a sharp pain in his chest. Mrs. Edward H. Burritt, Philadelphia, his only daughter advised him to return to bed. Slightly less than two hours later he arose again and collapsed.
Dr. A. V. Walter, the county coroner, conducted a routine investigation.
Born in Greenland, Lancaster county September 14, 1883, Mr. Barr entered the employ of the Lancaster Examiner on July 27, 1898 as a copy boy. He learned the printing trade and when the Examiner merged with the New Era he continued his work in the composing room and was foeman for a number of years.
Mr. Barr was widely known as a song leader and frequently conducted the community son services held on the prison grounds and aided with the spiritual services conducted in the Prison for men and women. He also frequently led the singing at Y. M. C. A. mass meetings. He was a member of Covenant United Brethren church, the Knights of Malta and Royal Arcanum.
His parents and wife are dead. One daughter, Mrs. Burrit, of Philadelphia, who was with him when he died and one granddaughter survive. Surviving also are: three brothers, Homer and Chester, Lancaster; Clarence, Reading and one sister, Edith Barr, Lancaster.
The funeral will be held Saturday with brief services at 1:30 o'clock in the Groff funerals parlors, West Orange street. Further services will be held at 2 o'clock in the Covenant United Brethren church. Interment will be in Riverview cemetery. Friends may call at the Groff funeral parlors Friday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock."
NOTE: The death certificate has the wrong year of birth. WWI Draft Registration and the 1900 Census list birth year 1883.
Information is from Burial/Death records at LCHS. NOTE: Burial: Sep. 3, 1938, Age: 57.
Lancaster (PA) New Era, Thursday, 1 Sep 1938, pg. 3.
"ROSS BARR, 55, DIES SUDDENLY.
Veteran Printer Was Employee of the New Era For 40 Years.
Stricken with a heart attack, Ross Franklin Barr, 408 South Ann street, for forty years and employee of the Lancaster New Era, fell dead in the bedroom of his home shortly before 7 o'clock this morning. He was fifty-five years old.
Apparently in good health, Mr. Barr was on duty yesterday and last evening attended a motion picture show. Shortly after 5 o'clock this morning he arose and complained of a sharp pain in his chest. Mrs. Edward H. Burritt, Philadelphia, his only daughter advised him to return to bed. Slightly less than two hours later he arose again and collapsed.
Dr. A. V. Walter, the county coroner, conducted a routine investigation.
Born in Greenland, Lancaster county September 14, 1883, Mr. Barr entered the employ of the Lancaster Examiner on July 27, 1898 as a copy boy. He learned the printing trade and when the Examiner merged with the New Era he continued his work in the composing room and was foeman for a number of years.
Mr. Barr was widely known as a song leader and frequently conducted the community son services held on the prison grounds and aided with the spiritual services conducted in the Prison for men and women. He also frequently led the singing at Y. M. C. A. mass meetings. He was a member of Covenant United Brethren church, the Knights of Malta and Royal Arcanum.
His parents and wife are dead. One daughter, Mrs. Burrit, of Philadelphia, who was with him when he died and one granddaughter survive. Surviving also are: three brothers, Homer and Chester, Lancaster; Clarence, Reading and one sister, Edith Barr, Lancaster.
The funeral will be held Saturday with brief services at 1:30 o'clock in the Groff funerals parlors, West Orange street. Further services will be held at 2 o'clock in the Covenant United Brethren church. Interment will be in Riverview cemetery. Friends may call at the Groff funeral parlors Friday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock."
NOTE: The death certificate has the wrong year of birth. WWI Draft Registration and the 1900 Census list birth year 1883.
Lancaster (PA) New Era, Thursday, 1 Sep 1938, pg. 3.
"ROSS BARR, 55, DIES SUDDENLY.
Veteran Printer Was Employee of the New Era For 40 Years.
Stricken with a heart attack, Ross Franklin Barr, 408 South Ann street, for forty years and employee of the Lancaster New Era, fell dead in the bedroom of his home shortly before 7 o'clock this morning. He was fifty-five years old.
Apparently in good health, Mr. Barr was on duty yesterday and last evening attended a motion picture show. Shortly after 5 o'clock this morning he arose and complained of a sharp pain in his chest. Mrs. Edward H. Burritt, Philadelphia, his only daughter advised him to return to bed. Slightly less than two hours later he arose again and collapsed.
Dr. A. V. Walter, the county coroner, conducted a routine investigation.
Born in Greenland, Lancaster county September 14, 1883, Mr. Barr entered the employ of the Lancaster Examiner on July 27, 1898 as a copy boy. He learned the printing trade and when the Examiner merged with the New Era he continued his work in the composing room and was foeman for a number of years.
Mr. Barr was widely known as a song leader and frequently conducted the community son services held on the prison grounds and aided with the spiritual services conducted in the Prison for men and women. He also frequently led the singing at Y. M. C. A. mass meetings. He was a member of Covenant United Brethren church, the Knights of Malta and Royal Arcanum.
His parents and wife are dead. One daughter, Mrs. Burrit, of Philadelphia, who was with him when he died and one granddaughter survive. Surviving also are: three brothers, Homer and Chester, Lancaster; Clarence, Reading and one sister, Edith Barr, Lancaster.
The funeral will be held Saturday with brief services at 1:30 o'clock in the Groff funerals parlors, West Orange street. Further services will be held at 2 o'clock in the Covenant United Brethren church. Interment will be in Riverview cemetery. Friends may call at the Groff funeral parlors Friday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock."
NOTE: The death certificate has the wrong year of birth. WWI Draft Registration and the 1900 Census list birth year 1883.
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