, New Jersey
Visitation will be held from 1 to 5PM Sunday October 18 2026 at the Bridgewater Funeral Home 707 E. Main St. Bridgewater NJ 08807. Visitation will continue at 9AM Monday October 19 2026 at the funeral home and will conclude with a funeral service at 10AM. Burial will follow at Bound Brook Cemetery.
, New Jersey
Barry was born in a snowstorm on January 14 1936 in Berwick PA the son of Wilma Mae and William Leroy Bowman. He enjoyed the drama club and playing the oboe in the high school band but his favorite activity was Boy Scouts where he earned the rank of Eagle Scout. While attending the 3rd National Boy Scout Jamboree in Irvine Ranch CA in 1953 he was given a press pass and a front row seat wiring articles each night to his hometown newspaper the Berwick Enterprise. At Penn State University he received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Petroleum Engineering and was a founding member of the Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity chapter. After graduation he worked for Pan American Petroleum in Texas Oklahoma and Kansas. After six moves in seven years he tired of small town life and joined Chase Manhattan Banks Petroleum Division in NYC and moved to NJ.…
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