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Show Notes 80th C. DOUGLAS BARNES C. Douglas Barnes will celebrale his 80th birthday, Saturday, Jan. 27 at an open house in the Bountiful 21st Ward facility, 650 South 200 East. Given by his children, friends and relatives are invited in-vited to call at the reception from 5 till 8 p.m. MR. BARNES was born in Salt Lake City, Jan. 28, 1899. He graduated from the LDS High School in 1916, and received the BS and MS degrees from the Uniersity of Utah, 1920 and 1927. The Ph.D degree was awarded in organic or-ganic chemistry at the University of California in 1929. He served briefly in the U.S. Army as World War I concluded. Mr. Barnes married Luella Strong of Alpine, Utah in 1923 after completing a mission in England for the LDS Church. EMPLOYED AS a chemist at Utah Oil Refining Company at the time of their marriage, he furthered his education at Utah and then entered University of California under a Willard D. Thompson scholarship. After completing the doctorate, doc-torate, Mr. Barnes was employed by Union Oil Company Com-pany at Wilmington where he became a supervisor of research and participated in development of Triton motor oil and 76 gasoline, MR. BARNES later was employed by Baroid Sales Division of National Lead, in Los Angeles and became manager of the laboratory dealing with oil well drilling problems. As World War II was climaxing, Mr. Barnes was employed as test engineer with Western Pipe and Steel Company in Wilmington, Calif., and participated in numerous acceptance and sea trials of military vessels. IN 1946 Mr. Barnes became an instructor in Long Beach City College and worked in the area of materials testing and chemistry. During part of this period he introduced the organic chemistry course at Long Beach State College and then taught survey of physical science in evening classes at that school. Mr. Barnes retired from teaching in 1964. He and his wife then spent three years in New Zealand where he presided over the Auckland Mission of the LDS Church. Returning to America in 1967 they made their home in Bountiful. Mrs. Barnes died in 1973. HE SERVED as president of Long Beach Stake, 1940-46. Currently he is patriarch in Bountiful Central Slake. He is a sealer in the Salt Lake Temple, teacher of adult class in Sunday School, and is historian his-torian of South Davis Chapter of Sons of Utah Pioneers. The children of Mr. Barnes are Helen McEldowney, Nor-walk, Nor-walk, Calif.; Phyllis Booth, Chicago, 111.; Dean A. Barnes, president of Weber Stake, Ogden; and Nancy Brindley, Alta Loma, Calif. There are 15 living grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. A brother, Ralph A. Barnes, resides in Salt Lake City. |