John Barry, Jr. was the son of John Barry and Marie Tallent Barry. Marie was the niece of my paternal great-grandfather, John Daniel Harvey.
When young Jack was 3, his grandfather took him for a walk in the park.
He broke away from his granddad and ran into Lancaster Avenue, and was hit by a car. He was in bad shape, and the family wondered if he would survive. He did, but wound up with a steel plate in his head from the incident.
On January 30, 1954, the Barrys' home at 4741 Lancaster Avenue (directly across from Our Mother of Sorrows Church) was hit by a terrible fire. The first alarm sounded at 4:40 a.m.
Marie and John Barry (who worked at Link Belt Co.), and four of their five children were killed.
The children who died were Marie, 17, a senior at West Catholic Girls' High School; Leo, 11, a sixth-grader at Our Mother of Sorrows School; Patrick, 6, a first-grader at OMOS; and Marjorie, the baby of the family, who was only four years old.
The family's Requiem Mass was held at Our Mother of Sorrows. They were all interred at Old Cathedral Cemetery, right near their home.
Young Jack, 19, was at his job at Linton's Restaurant at 52nd Street and Baltimore Avenue at the time, and for that reason was the only member of his family to escape the fire.
Kish Funeral Home at 6506 Elmwood Avenue handled Jack's funeral arrangements.
According to the Social Security Death Index, Jack was living in Glenolden, Delaware County at the time of his death at age 62.
When young Jack was 3, his grandfather took him for a walk in the park.
He broke away from his granddad and ran into Lancaster Avenue, and was hit by a car. He was in bad shape, and the family wondered if he would survive. He did, but wound up with a steel plate in his head from the incident.
On January 30, 1954, the Barrys' home at 4741 Lancaster Avenue (directly across from Our Mother of Sorrows Church) was hit by a terrible fire. The first alarm sounded at 4:40 a.m.
Marie and John Barry (who worked at Link Belt Co.), and four of their five children were killed.
The children who died were Marie, 17, a senior at West Catholic Girls' High School; Leo, 11, a sixth-grader at Our Mother of Sorrows School; Patrick, 6, a first-grader at OMOS; and Marjorie, the baby of the family, who was only four years old.
The family's Requiem Mass was held at Our Mother of Sorrows. They were all interred at Old Cathedral Cemetery, right near their home.
Young Jack, 19, was at his job at Linton's Restaurant at 52nd Street and Baltimore Avenue at the time, and for that reason was the only member of his family to escape the fire.
Kish Funeral Home at 6506 Elmwood Avenue handled Jack's funeral arrangements.
According to the Social Security Death Index, Jack was living in Glenolden, Delaware County at the time of his death at age 62.
John Barry, Jr. was the son of John Barry and Marie Tallent Barry. Marie was the niece of my paternal great-grandfather, John Daniel Harvey.
When young Jack was 3, his grandfather took him for a walk in the park.
He broke away from his granddad and ran into Lancaster Avenue, and was hit by a car. He was in bad shape, and the family wondered if he would survive. He did, but wound up with a steel plate in his head from the incident.
On January 30, 1954, the Barrys' home at 4741 Lancaster Avenue (directly across from Our Mother of Sorrows Church) was hit by a terrible fire. The first alarm sounded at 4:40 a.m.
Marie and John Barry (who worked at Link Belt Co.), and four of their five children were killed.
The children who died were Marie, 17, a senior at West Catholic Girls' High School; Leo, 11, a sixth-grader at Our Mother of Sorrows School; Patrick, 6, a first-grader at OMOS; and Marjorie, the baby of the family, who was only four years old.
The family's Requiem Mass was held at Our Mother of Sorrows. They were all interred at Old Cathedral Cemetery, right near their home.
Young Jack, 19, was at his job at Linton's Restaurant at 52nd Street and Baltimore Avenue at the time, and for that reason was the only member of his family to escape the fire.
Kish Funeral Home at 6506 Elmwood Avenue handled Jack's funeral arrangements.
According to the Social Security Death Index, Jack was living in Glenolden, Delaware County at the time of his death at age 62.
When young Jack was 3, his grandfather took him for a walk in the park.
He broke away from his granddad and ran into Lancaster Avenue, and was hit by a car. He was in bad shape, and the family wondered if he would survive. He did, but wound up with a steel plate in his head from the incident.
On January 30, 1954, the Barrys' home at 4741 Lancaster Avenue (directly across from Our Mother of Sorrows Church) was hit by a terrible fire. The first alarm sounded at 4:40 a.m.
Marie and John Barry (who worked at Link Belt Co.), and four of their five children were killed.
The children who died were Marie, 17, a senior at West Catholic Girls' High School; Leo, 11, a sixth-grader at Our Mother of Sorrows School; Patrick, 6, a first-grader at OMOS; and Marjorie, the baby of the family, who was only four years old.
The family's Requiem Mass was held at Our Mother of Sorrows. They were all interred at Old Cathedral Cemetery, right near their home.
Young Jack, 19, was at his job at Linton's Restaurant at 52nd Street and Baltimore Avenue at the time, and for that reason was the only member of his family to escape the fire.
Kish Funeral Home at 6506 Elmwood Avenue handled Jack's funeral arrangements.
According to the Social Security Death Index, Jack was living in Glenolden, Delaware County at the time of his death at age 62.
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