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The final installment of my reflections on the life and death of John Barnes, my grandfather. I had driven down that road dozens of times.  And I had parked in that driveway just as often.  Every [...]

Third in my reflections on the life of my Grandfather, John Barnes. In my last post, I recounted John’s work ethic – that as a young husband and father he frequently worked up to 20 hours per [...]

This series of posts comprise my reflections on the life of my grandfather John Barnes. The first entry is here. A few years after John and Helen married, Eastern Kansas was struck by a pretty [...]

John Barnes died on Sunday, March 20 at 2:30 am, Central Time.  He died on a hospice bed in the living room of the house he’d occupied for nearly 20 years, surrounded by his wife and two of his [...]