George N. Barritt

George Norman Barritt
George N. Barritt was born in Princeton,
Mercer County, Missouri on February 17, 1921 to George and Eldora Neighbors Barritt. The family moved to Fargo, Ellis County, Oklahoma when George was four years of age. He grew up on the Sutter Ranch, where his father was employed as Ranch Foreman.
When George was 15 years of age, the family moved to
Longmont Colorado, where George graduated from High School. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in on September 11, 1940 as an Apprentice Seaman, and was soon assigned to the Battleship West Virginia.
George's ship was in port December 07, 1941 when the Japanese bombed
Pearl Harbor.
His ship was lost and he swam to shore, somehow escaping serious injury during the attack. George was then transferred to the Battleship Salt Lake City, where he served in the Pacific until the end of the war. He received an honorable discharge as a Gunner's Mate Second Class on November 15, 1946 in
Norfolk Virginia.
George attended College at
Southeastern
Oklahoma
State
University in Wilburton, Oklahoma before moving to
Woodward, Oklahoma. There he began his lifetime vocation, working as a lineman for the Rural Electric Cooperative.
George married Rotina Williams on July 24, 1948 in Woodward. They moved to Liberal, Kansas in 1955, and to
Lamar, Colorado in 1958, where George worked for Southeast Colorado Power Association until his retirement in 1986.
George was preceded in death by his parents, George and Eldora Barritt, his wife, Rotina, brother Clarence, sisters Alice Boland, Adria Gilliland and Olive Hohweiler.
George is survived by several nieces and nephews and friends in the Lamar area as well as those that cared for him at the

Holly
Nursing
Care
Center.
Mr. Barritt passed away on November 16, 2009 at the
Holly
Nursing
Care
Center in
Holly, Colorado at the age of 88.
Graveside Memorial services will be held at the
Fargo
Cemetery in
Fargo, Oklahoma at a later date.