Barry was the youngest son of Roland W. and Mabel M. (Wentz) Shaffer. He was raised in the small community of Greenmount, Maryland, in Carroll County. His elementary schooling was at Manchester Elementary and Junior High, in Manchester, Maryland. Barry then attended North Carroll High School, a consolidated school of the communities of Manchester and Hampstead. Barry was involved in athletics and was a member of the Soccer, Basketball and Track teams all four years of his enrollment at North Carroll. He was an avid car enthusiast and lived for the day that he could get his driver license. Tragedy happened on Thanksgiving eve of 1963, a very rainy evening, when Barry lost control of his car on a very dangerous curve just a couple of miles from his home. He lost his life that rainy night, and a happy go lightly member of the class of '64 was taken away from it. In the Quo Vadis, the yearbook, a memoriam was written in his honor, quote:
"His friendly smile and flash of dimples
That nimble humor and casual manner
Gone now, but not forgotten...
Once the ardent and skillful mechanic
Ever the agile and sportive athlete
Always the carefree and playful scholar
Gone now, but not forgotten...
Summoned by the Creator's master hand
Leaving behind all his worldly treasures
Yesterday's realities like memories
Are all gone now, but not forgotten..."
"His friendly smile and flash of dimples
That nimble humor and casual manner
Gone now, but not forgotten...
Once the ardent and skillful mechanic
Ever the agile and sportive athlete
Always the carefree and playful scholar
Gone now, but not forgotten...
Summoned by the Creator's master hand
Leaving behind all his worldly treasures
Yesterday's realities like memories
Are all gone now, but not forgotten..."
Barry was the youngest son of Roland W. and Mabel M. (Wentz) Shaffer. He was raised in the small community of Greenmount, Maryland, in Carroll County. His elementary schooling was at Manchester Elementary and Junior High, in Manchester, Maryland. Barry then attended North Carroll High School, a consolidated school of the communities of Manchester and Hampstead. Barry was involved in athletics and was a member of the Soccer, Basketball and Track teams all four years of his enrollment at North Carroll. He was an avid car enthusiast and lived for the day that he could get his driver license. Tragedy happened on Thanksgiving eve of 1963, a very rainy evening, when Barry lost control of his car on a very dangerous curve just a couple of miles from his home. He lost his life that rainy night, and a happy go lightly member of the class of '64 was taken away from it. In the Quo Vadis, the yearbook, a memoriam was written in his honor, quote:
"His friendly smile and flash of dimples
That nimble humor and casual manner
Gone now, but not forgotten...
Once the ardent and skillful mechanic
Ever the agile and sportive athlete
Always the carefree and playful scholar
Gone now, but not forgotten...
Summoned by the Creator's master hand
Leaving behind all his worldly treasures
Yesterday's realities like memories
Are all gone now, but not forgotten..."
"His friendly smile and flash of dimples
That nimble humor and casual manner
Gone now, but not forgotten...
Once the ardent and skillful mechanic
Ever the agile and sportive athlete
Always the carefree and playful scholar
Gone now, but not forgotten...
Summoned by the Creator's master hand
Leaving behind all his worldly treasures
Yesterday's realities like memories
Are all gone now, but not forgotten..."
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