Ed. Barlow, who has been in charge of the poultry and egg buying at the Farm Bureau Service Company in Napoleon, was fatally injured Tuesday evening, Nov. 8, when his automobile struck a bridge on a curve In the road about six miles west of Bowling Green as he was returning from Bowling Green about 10:30.
He had been in Bowling Green with Mr. Fitzenreiter, another Henry county boy who works for the same company, inspecting poultry at the Bowling Green branch of the company.
The car was a total wreck. Barlow lived until Thursday afternoon, and Fitzenreiter is convalescing in a Bowling Green hospital with a leg broken just below the hip.
Barlow had worked for the poultry co-operative association at Wauseon almost since its start over seven years ago, and was an expert buyer of poultry and eggs. He moved to Napoleon and started work with the Farm Bureau Service Company early last summer.
He was a native of Washington township, near Liberty Center, a graduate of the Smith-Hughes vocational agricultural department of that high school and his many friends regret his passing.
Eddie graduated with the class of ’24 from here and was very popular with his classmates. He was the son of Mrs. Christina Reighard of Washinton Township. His wife Helen Sharpe Barlow and daughter Norma Jean survive. Sisters and brothers are Mrs. Chancy Greisinger, of Delta, Mrs. Sumner Conway, Mrs. Donald Saneholtz and Mr. Lonzo Barlow, of Liberty Center and Mr. Ernest Barlow, of Whitehouse.