Goliad County Biographies

Roy Bryson Barry was born 21 Jun 1903, in Bryson Ranch, Comanche, Comanche County, Texas. Roy died 2 Nov 1976, in Buchanan Dam, Llano Co., Texas, buried in Electra, Wichita County, Texas. He married Lucille "Cindy" Able 12 Jun 1923, in Archer City, Archer County, Texas. Together they had 1 child: Theda Barry, born 14 Jul 1927, she died young on 3 Mar 1935, in Texas, and was buried in Kilgore City Cemetery,Kilgore, Goliad County, Texas.
Information courtesy of Jan Cooper Greer.  "The Historical Encyclopedia of Texas Revised", 1937 Published by the Texas Historical Society, Ellis Arthur Davis Editor, page 1811:

Roy Barry, who has been actively connected with he oil refining and oil well supply industries for upwards of two decades, and who is now making his headquarters in Kilgore, Texas, commands an expert knowledge of the manufacture and repair of oil operating equipment, and has become an executive leader in this field. In 1934 Mr. Barry came to Kilgore and organized his present firm, known as Standard Iron Works, which he owns and operates, employing a crew of competent machinist and welders to manage his large and well equipped establishment. Due to his reputation as an outstanding iron and metal worker, gained through his service with many of the largest Texas oil and refining concerns, Mr. Barry's shop receives a very extensive patronage in the East Texas oil field.
Mr Barry has been identified with petroleum, either from production standpoint, or in the supply and since leaving school, when he went with Magnolia Refining Company, in the pipeline department, at Desdemonia, Texas, continuing there four years. He next served a year in the gas plant of Humble Oil and Refining Company, at Corsicana, and from there he went to Texas Boiler and Sheet Iron Works, as a welder, continuing in that position two and a half years. A year with Dixie Gas and Fuel Company in the same capacity followed, and a like period with Booth and Flynn. He next served as welder for Dale Refining Company, at Electra, for a year and a half, from there going to Waggner Refining Company, as shop foreman, remaining in Electra with them for four years. he then came to Kilgore and established his present business.

Mr. Barry was born in Comanche County, Texas on June 21. 1902, and is the son of Iris Columbus Barry and Viola Amelia Lewis Barry. After completing his education in the School of Eastland and Erath County he entered upon his business career, and has been given in foregoing paragraphs.

Mr. Barry married on the twelfth day of June 1924, to Miss Lucille Able, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Able of Electra. They now reside in Kilgore. Mr. Barry belongs to Danville Blue Lodge No. 101 of Kilgore and is a member of the most experienced welders and metal workers in the development of his business interests, and no detail of his business is to trivial to receive his personal attention, no order to large or to small for his interested supervision.
In 1970 Barry was living in Buchanan Dam, Texas.  Transcribed by Mary Lafferty Wilson
 

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