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- Howard Anderson Barber was born in Detroit (?), Wayne County, Michigan 09 November 1896. At this time (1998) his parentage is not known. He came to Seattle in 1920 and went to work for Western Electric which was part of Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company, located on Fairview Ave. He worked there until he retired in 1960 - 40 years! Howard and Auntie May were married on the 1st of July 1921and had no children. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1970. Many friends and family attended the gala affair at their home. Auntie May, (some us called her Mayme),and Howard built a small house at 10501 Ravenna Avenue NE in north east Seattle in about 1924, having lived previously next door to her sister Clara in West Seattle on SW Southern Street. In the 1930’s they moved their little house to another spot on their property and added on to the house. They maintained a beautiful yard there, a show place of the neighborhood. They became interested in growing orchids and raised them in their own large greenhouse for their own pleasure and for sale for many years. They enjoyed camping and fishing in their younger years, but as Mayme’s health declined they bought a 28’ pleasure boat in the late1930’s and enjoyed many trips on Puget Sound and through the San Juan Islands, until the shortage of gasoline during World War II caused them to sell the boat. They raised a vegetable garden and thousands of bedding plants from seed to enjoy in their yard all summer. They were Masons and were members of the Yancy C. Blalock Lodge No.265 F. & A. M., and Radus Uphus Chapter No. 208 O.E.S., who conducted the service at Howard’s funeral, which was handled by and at Green Lake Funeral Home, 7217 Woodlawn Ave. NE, Seattle. Howard was a member of the Telephone Pioneers. Howard was cremated. Uncle Howard and Auntie May had no children but they enjoyed all their nieces and nephews. Howard owned a Hudson Terraplane two-door, possibly 1935 or 36, which had a small electric shift lever box on the right side of the steering column just below the steering wheel. He used to take the Coy kids to Playland in the summertime, which was an amusement park out on Aurora Avenue and about 86th Avenue N., north of the Seattle city limits. He never took Don Coy because he said that he was too small. See the book, 'Ennis History', published in 1979 by Jean Agnes (Ferguson) Smith, 1979, pages 106 and 107 and page 107 for pictures of May and Howard. 1997 also those pictures on in their scrapbooks. This account was partially contributed by Mary Phyllis 'Phyliss' (Reeder) Fletcher in 1978 and edited by Donald Raymond Coy -- 1997.
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1896 - 1979 (82 years)
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