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In Remembrance – OADA Past President, Dick Barrett

Richard M. “Dick” Barrett, age 67, of Poland , Ohio , passed away peacefully Friday, August 11 at Forum Health Northside Medical Center from complications due to cancer.

Mr. Barrett was born February 27, 1939 in Lansing , Michigan .  He was a graduate of Boardman High School and was a 1961 graduate of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster , Pennsylvania , where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity.

He then served two years from 1962 to 1964 in the U.S. Navy aboard U.S.S. Norris, a destroyer, as a radar operator.

Mr. Barrett was in the automobile business for 40 years, and was owner of Barrett Cadillac.  He was a past president of the Ohio Automobile Dealers Association (OADA) in 1975, the Automobile Dealers Association of Eastern Ohio (ADAEO), and a past Ohio representative for the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA).

He is survived by his mother, LaBelle Barrett; his wife; two children, the Rev. Wayne Paul (Jennifer) Barrett of DeMotte, Indiana and Lindsay (Dr. Michael) Bigham of Cincinnati; three grandchildren, Anastasia Hope, Emmet Hesed Barrett and Barrett Tyler Bigham; and two sisters, Susan Barrett of Annapolis, Maryland and Becky (Herb) Olmi of Youngstown.

Calling hours will be Monday, August 14 from 4 to 7pm at the Davis Funeral Home in Boardman, where a Four Square Club prayer will be held immediately following the calling hours.  A Memorial Service will be held Tuesday, August 15 at 11am at the Poland Presbyterian Church.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to the Hospice of the Valley, the Four Square Club and the Salvation Army.