Harry S. Barrows ’45

Harry died April 16, 2015.

He entered Princeton from Cheltenham (Pa.) High School, where he was valedictorian of his class. A member of Elm Club at Princeton, Harry served as an infantry officer during World War II. While in France he met his future wife, Johnny Viturah, who was serving as an Army nurse. Harry returned to Princeton to obtain his degree and then began a lifelong career in the insurance business, becoming a partner at Holmes Murphy in Des Moines, Iowa.

Harry loved the outdoors and especially loved to hunt. He devoted his non-business activities to the Masons and the Scottish Rite, rising through various ranks and becoming sovereign grand inspector general for the state of Iowa and a member of the Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States.

Johnny died in 1988, and Harry later married Betsy Franz, who died in 2005. He leaves behind his three sons, Jeff, Paul, and Carl; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. The class expresses its sympathy to them all.