William Henry Barbour Jr. ’36

Bill died Jan. 1, 1999, of pneumonia, in his hometown of Yazoo City, Miss. He was 84. A graduate of Lawrenceville, he spent two years at Princeton and belonged to Cottage Club. He transferred to the U. of Mississippi, where he earned his law degree. He was a past president of that school's alumni association. He was a deacon and elder of his church and was interested in Little League baseball and the Boy Scouts. Bill was a longtime director of the Delta Natl. Bank (now the Deposit Guarantee Natl. Bank), and he was a member of the American and State of Mississippi Bar Associations. He retired in 1990 from his law firm, Henry, Barbour and De Call.

Bill had an impressive WWII record. In 1942 he enlisted in the Army as a private, graduated from Officer's Candidate School, and served two years in the Coast Artillery and two years in Washington, D.C., in the General Staff Corps. He was awarded the Legion of Merit and retired as a major.

His first wife, Genevieve, died in 1971. He is survived by his wife, Dicey, daughter Genevieve, sons William H. Jr. '63 and McBee, sister Patty Lipsert, six grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter. His brother Jeptha F. Jr. '34 died in 1950.

The Class of 1936