Memories of Alexandria Friends
Ed Barrett

This is the house at 3216 Marye St that my father, Edward J Barrett, built around 1949. It was one of the first slab-built home with a stone exterior built in Alexandria after WWII.

My father was a builder, realtor, contractor, and later the manager of Hot Wells before going to work for the US Army Corps of Engineers. Born and raised in Alexandria and a highly decorated WWII Army officer, he was well known in the community.

The family moved to Texas in 1964. He died in 1974 at the age of 58 and is buried in the National Cemetery in Pineville. My mother, Frances Barrett, lives in Alabama now.

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