This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Barrett, Hightower, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TMB.2ACI/3378 Message Board Post: The Banner Press, Marble Hill, MO Sept. 22, 1960 Ivan Barrett Killed Instantly in Truck Wreck Ivan Barrett, a native of Bollinger County, was killed in a truck wreck, 18 miles west of Denver, Colorado on Thursday morning, September 15. He was driving a transport truck loaded with apples for the Cox Fruit and Vegetable Co. of Plainview, Texas, and when nearing Denver he struck the edge of a road grader blade causing the truck to plunge into an emabnkment which completely demolished the truck, killing Mr. Barrett instantly. He was born June 7, 1921, near Grassy, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Barrett. He spent his boyhood ddays at home and attended the schools of this county. He went to Colorado in his early twenties and while there he married Mary Hightower, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hightower of Montrose, Colorado. Later he moved to Plainview, Texas, which was his home at the time of his death. Surviving relatives are his wife, two daughters, Carolyn, 14; Sharon, 12 and one son, David, 4; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Barrett of Grassy and one brother, Wm. Barrett of Wood River, Illinois. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2:00 at the Chapel of Roses Funeral Home in Montrose, Colorado. Burial was in the Chapel of Roses Cemetery in Montrose.