The Washington times., 1937-01-18
A. BARR
INFERRED At
GLENWO0D


for Lester A. Barr, SO, who died
yesterday after a long illness at
his residence in the Wyoming
Apartment. Burial was in Glen
wood Cemetery.
Prominent in Washington real
estate and financial circles, Mr..
Barr, who was born in HagerS-
town, Md, came here shortly be-
fore the Civil War and lived here
most of his adult life.
More than As years ago he
founded the firm of Barr and
Sanner, which built the first
modern city home in Mt. Pleasant.
The firm was dissolved and Mr..
Barr went into business for him.
self. He built the Mt. Vernon
Apartment at Ninth and New York
Ave. N. W., one of the first build
ings Of this type in the District.
The Wyoming Apartment on Con-
necticut Avenue was considered
the apex of his building ventures.
An active member Of the Epiph-
any Church before his recent i'll
ness, Mr.. Barr held membership
in the Knights Templar and was
on the Washington Board OF
Trade.
Surviving are his two daughters.
Mrs. Herbert Lee Alexander, OF
Martinsburg, W. Va, and Mrs.
william Starr Myers, Of Princeton,
N. j., and two sons, John L. and
Stewart Barr, Of washington.
COLIN MCKENZIE MOORE
Colin Mckenzie Moore. 48. chief
examiner of the Resettlement Blu
reau. died suddenly yesterday at
his residence, 2l06 r st. N. w.
He was found dead in the bath
room by two other residents of the
same address. Coroner A. Magru-
der Macdonald, after performing
an autopsy yesterday, said that
death was due to acute alcoholism.
Mr.. Moore came to Washington
several years ago from Baltimore
to assume his duties in the Gov
ernment here. His two brothers,
John and Robert Moore, have been
notified Of his death and funeral
arrangements are pending their
arrival here today.
MRS. MYRTLE w. RANSOM
Funeral services for Mrs. Myrtle
W. Ransom, who died yesterday CT
q heart ailment at her home in
Falls Church, Va, will be con-
Quoted tomorrow afternoon in the
Falls Church Presbyterian Church.
lnterment will be in Columbia
Gardens Cemetery.
The wife of DR.. C. A. Ransom,
Fairfax county coroner. she was
active in social and civic circles
Of the county. Born in Glen Ullin,
N. D.. Mrs. Ransom was graduate
of the North Dakota Agricultural
College. She was president of the
Falls Church Parent Teacher Asso-
citation last year, and was a mem
Der of the Presbyterian Church.
Besides her husband, Mrs Ran
som is survived by two children.
John Snow Ransom and Martha
Jean Ransom.
ALFRED GEORGE REYNOLDS
Alfred George Reynolds, survey
engineer in the commercial de-
partment Of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company, died
yesterday, his fifty-second birth
day, in Emergency Hospital.
A native of Brooklyn, N. Y, Mr..
I~
years of telephone company SER
vice. His career began with the
New York Telephone Company in
1905. He transferred to the tele-
phone company here in 1918.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Marguerite Kelley Reynolds; two
sisters, Mrs. Harry R. Townsend.
Of New York, and Mrs. w. w. Van
derbilt, of Birmingham, Ala, and
two brothers, C. M. Reynolds, of
HackenSack. N. j., and w. A.
Reynolds, Of New York.
Masonic funeral services will be
conducted in the Lee funeral home
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock,
with the Rev. j. M. Gillim, of the
Brookland Methodist Church.
1nterment will be private.
1T. GILBERT G. FLETCHER
Lieut.. Gilbert G. Fletcher, D. C.
r. D., attached to Engine Com
pany No. 20. who died Saturday
in George Washington University
Hospital after a brief illness, will
BE- buried tomorrow in Cedar Hill
Cemetery. Services will be con-
Quoted in the late residence, 1909
Ellicott Street Northwest.
Born so years ago in BluemonT,
Va, he came to Washington when
he was 81. A member of the Dis
trict Fire Department for more
than 80 years, Lieutenant Fletcher
was decorated for heroic rescue
work at the Knickerbocker The
ater disaster in 1922.
A few months ago Lieut..
Fletcher became known in Wash
ington as an amateur painter with
no little skill to the movement of
his brush. It was explained then
that most Of his work was done
at an easel in the engine house.
Often his brush was halted by the
sound of q fire alarm. One of his
canvasses, a view of the old C. &
o. Canal, hangs today in the recre-
alton room of his home.
Surviving Lieutenant Fletcher is
his widow, Mrs. Della W. Fletcher
and three children, Della Eliza