BARROW, WEBBER, MORAN

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Marin Journal
Thursday, August 12, 1920
Page 1

Funeral Services Of Al Barrow

Alfred Barrow’s funeral was held last Monday and scores of his sorrowing friends attended the last rites of a man who was universally well liked in the community where he had spent his entire life.

In his life time here Al Barrow had made many scores of friends by his unostentatious kindness, and dozens of unheralded acts of charity to men in need are marked down to his credit in the record of his life.

“Al is dead,” was the word that went round Saturday morning, and men who heard it experienced a feeling of sorrow. For he was known as a “square fellow.”

Among his acquaintances and admirers are hundreds of baseball players, many of them now professionals, who received their start in their vocation through Al Barrow’s interest in them. For a number of years he managed, much of the time at a pecuniary loss, San Rafael’s baseball team.

When the call for soldiers came in 1898 Al donned a uniform and went to the Philippines. He was a member of the J. H. Harris Camp No. 18, of the Spanish American War Veterans, and of the San Rafael Aerie of Eagles.

For many months he had been a patient sufferer from a fatal illness, pulmonary trouble. Uncomplaining and cheerful he waited for the end which he knew would be soon.

The funeral services were held at St. Raphael’s Church, where a requiem mass was celebrated. The interment was in Mt. Olivet cemetery.

The regard in which he was held was partly manifested in the wealth of floral pieces placed on the mound of his last resting place.

He leaves to mourn his passing a widow, Mrs. Ida Barrow, a little son, Alfred Barrow, Jr., his mother, Mrs. Matilda Barrow, three brothers, Joseph, Jerry and Eugene Barrow, and two sisters, Mrs. Al. Webber and Mrs. Moran.