Saturday, June 04, 2011

More LE Barnes #11

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4 comments:

Chic Silber said...

Wasn't Lois's father Harold Barnes

& didn't he have a tent rental

company (but I don't believe that

they built tents)

Anonymous said...

I think Harold was Lois' brother

Roger Smith said...

Lois's father was Roger Barnes. He was killed in an auto accident, on his way to the funeral of his grandson. Lois and Dave's son, Gary.

Harold Barnes, the great wirewalker, segued into the tent rental business, but as you noted, they didn't enter manufacturing. I believe Florida Tent Rental may still be in operation. Someone may tell us if Harold was either a brother or cousin to Lois.

Mike Naughton said...

Gail Barnes is the widow of Harold and is one of the DeRitzkie (spelling?) Sisters. Her sisters are Sandy and Lucy. Lucy is married to Bob Snowden. One of Mr. Snowden's ventures was Chico's Monkey Farm.
The DeRitzie Sisters' family operated Ring Brothers Circus.
Bob was the producer of the Manchester, NH Shrine date before it was incorporated Wayne McCary produced Maine Dates.