Born in Fitchburg, MA., the youngest of 3 children. Served in the U.S.Army Air Corps in the Chinese Theater of Operations during WW II. Married Lois Hanson in 1947. Son, Barry Gale Canton, born in 1948. Reenlisted in the U.S. Air Force. Second son, John T. Canton, born in 1960. Retired from the USAF and worked in U.S. Civil Service. Wife died in 1968. Married second wife. Retired from the Civil Service. Son Barry, his wife Sandra, and their unborn child killed in an airplane crash in 1973. Divorced from his second wife, he moved to Florida. He returned to El Paso in 1976 and married for a third time,to Andrea Holt, in 1989. Andrea died in 1992 and he remarried for the last time in 1996 to Bernie Molina.
Born in Fitchburg, MA., the youngest of 3 children. Served in the U.S.Army Air Corps in the Chinese Theater of Operations during WW II. Married Lois Hanson in 1947. Son, Barry Gale Canton, born in 1948. Reenlisted in the U.S. Air Force. Second son, John T. Canton, born in 1960. Retired from the USAF and worked in U.S. Civil Service. Wife died in 1968. Married second wife. Retired from the Civil Service. Son Barry, his wife Sandra, and their unborn child killed in an airplane crash in 1973. Divorced from his second wife, he moved to Florida. He returned to El Paso in 1976 and married for a third time,to Andrea Holt, in 1989. Andrea died in 1992 and he remarried for the last time in 1996 to Bernie Molina.
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