Edgar M. Barrett |
| Posted 2018-07-03 by Pat R |
| Wickenburg Sun (Wickenburg, Arizona) Wednesday, May 23, 2018, p. A-5 Edgar M. Barrett Aug. 6, 1926 - May 14, 2018 Edgar M. Barrett passed away Monday, May 14, 2018, in Surprise. No local service is planned. Known to his family and friends as Jerry and as Boogie to his grandkids, he was born in Choteau, Mont., on Aug. 6, 1926. He attended Choteau High School, graduating in 1944. He enlisted in the Army that same year and served in the Pacific in Japan and the Philippines, until being discharged in 1946. Jerry attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, and graduated from the University of Montana with his degree in secondary education with a math major and economics minor. He taught in numerous places--Stockton, Calif., then Choteau and Valier, Mont., while working with his brother Paul on a large cattle ranch located along the mountain front east of Dupuyer, Mont. He married Alyce E. Ziegler in 1957, and he continued ranching while Alyce taught in Valier and Choteau. They had a daughter Keely Pye in 1960 and Blake David in 1963. He was a tall, lanky guy, and every year when 30-below calving season came around, he vowed, "There must be a warmer way." So he applied for a teaching job in Hawaii. In 1965, he packed up Alyce, Keely and Blake and moved to Hilo on the Big Island. School years were spent in the tropics. He taught math at Hilo High School for 20 years but he always returned to the ranch in the summer to irrigate and fish. Or was it fish and irrigate? He never tired of the mountain front. Jerry was a "Jack of all Trades". He built buck rakes for haying, made spare parts for the cars and he built his own airplane. He was a naturalist as well. He loved critters, especially birds and enjoyed sailing and hiking the backcountry with his best friend Walt Sticker. He was a builder. While teaching in Hawaii, he built two custom homes with the help of his nephew Rex Barrett, who was like son to him and who continues to live and build houses in Hilo. Jerry went on to build another home in Wickenburg, when he retired in 1985. "Boogie" was adored by four beautiful grandkids, to which he taught compassion and humanity, and shared his capacity to find love for all creatures down to the smallest jumping spider in the garden. Jerry is survived by his wife Alyce; daughter Keely of Spokane, Wash.; son Blake (Kai) of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; four grandchildren Makenzie Blake, Ross Burton, Burke Anthony and Delaney Shay; brother Paul (Pat) Barrett of Fairfield, Mont., as well as numerous nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews, and wonderful friends who will miss him dearly. |
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