Ronald Barrett

Ronald Barrett - Obituary San Antonio, TX Ronald Barrett, born April 19, 1944 at McCarron Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada, died January 22, 2007, in San Antonio, TX. Ronald moved to Grove in 1947, where he attended the Grove public schools for 12 years. He graduated with the class of 1962. Following graduation, Ron attended Oklahoma State University and graduated with a degree in Business Administration. While attending OSU, he was active in the advanced Air Force R.O.T.C. and entered the United States Air Force as a Second Lieutenant. His Air Force career consisted of one year of training in the U.S. and the one year in Viet Nam and two years in Europe. He worked in the Air Force finance department, and earned a Master's Degree while serving in the Air Force. After his service in the Air Force, Ron enrolled in the International School of Business in Phoenix, AZ. It was while enrolled there that Ron met his future wife, Maryann Piazzo, a school teacher. Ron remained active in the Air Force Reserves and retired in 1995 as a Lieutenant Colonel following a total of thirty years combined active duty and reserve service. While in the Air Force, Ron was awarded the Bronze Star for his duty in Viet Nam. Following his graduation from the International School of Business, he accepted a job with American Express Bank and spent two years managing a bank in Okinawa. Ron and Maryann agreed that Okinawa was too far from family and friends, so they moved to San Antonio, TX , where he worked for the Air Force non-appropriated fund division, which controls all P-X's and commissaries world wide. He and his wife also established a successful private tax practice. Ron loved to hunt and fish and was an avid tennis player Twelve years later Ron accepted a position with Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union. He retired from Randolph-Brooks as an Executive Vice-President in 2006. Ronald is survived by his wife, Maryann, of the home; one daughter, Joanna, of Houston, TX; one son, Ronald D. Barrett, Jr. of San Antonio, TX. Other survivors include his brother, Jim Barrett and wife Karen and family of Dallas, TX; his sister, Susan Sutter and husband Charles and family of Leesburg, VA; his father, Dean Barrett and wife Anna Lee of Grove, OK; two step-brothers Greg Spicer and wife Jackie of Grove, OK and Mike Spicer and family of Grove, OK. He was preceded in death by his infant brother, Roger Barrett and his grandparents, A.G. and Lola Nicks, long time residents of the Hickory Grove community, as well as other relatives whom he loved. A Memorial Service will be held at 2:00PM on Saturday, February 3, 2007, at the First Christian Church Celebration Hall in Grove. Family will receive friends at a visitation from 6pm until 8pm on Friday, February 2, 2007. In lieu of flowers friends may make memorial contributions to the National Cancer Society Institute, c/o Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home, 711 South Main Street, Grove, OK.,74344, or to the First Christian Church Building Fund in Grove, P.O. Box 450327, Grove, OK., 74344.

Service Details

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007 2:00pm

Interment Details

Fairland Cemetery, Fairland Ok