Barnes, Charles P., 86, Greenland, NH, in Exeter, October 28, 2008. Private graveside services with military honors will be held in the Spring Grove Cemetery, Andover, MA. Arrangements are in the care of the Remick & Gendron Funeral Home-Crematory, Hampton.
Greenland, NH – Charles P. Barnes, 86, of Greenland died Tuesday October 28, 2008, at Exeter Healthcare Inc.
He was born September 1, 1922, in Caswell, ME a son of the late Austin and Levonia (Gilman) Barnes.
Mr. Barnes was a graduate of Limestone High School, Limestone, ME with the Class of 1939.
He was a veteran of WW II serving in the Atlantic, the Pacific and also in Brazil with the US Navy. He was a member of the all-Navy volunteer convoy (SACO) Sino American Cooperative Organization on the Stillwell Burma Road. After his discharge from the Navy he joined the Naval Reserve and retired as a Chief Petty Officer in 1973 with 28 years of service.
Mr. Barnes was employed in the civil engineering department at the former Pease Air Force Base in Newington for many years retiring in 1984. He was a member of the Church of the Advent, Episcopal in Limestone, ME, the Limestone Masonic Lodge #214, Scottish Rite Bodies Valley of Portsmouth and Dover and Bektash Temple Shrine in Concord.
He shared 44 years of marriage with his wife, Annes M. (Hinchcliffe) Barnes.
In addition to his wife, family members include two daughters, Jo-Ann C. Byrne of Jacksonville, FL, Lauren B. Oeser of Eliot, ME, four grandchildren, David M. Oeser, Jennifer L. Pope, Charles B. Oeser, Tommy C. Thompkins, two great-grandchildren, Kaitlin and Brock, and several nieces and nephews.
Private graveside services with military honors will be held in the Spring Grove Cemetery, Andover, MA. In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations to the Church of the Advent, Episcopal, c/o Mrs. Harry Martin, 101 Pondview Street, Limestone, ME 04750. Arrangements are by the Remick & Gendron Funeral Home-Crematory, Hampton. www.RemickGendron.com.
