Name: Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary
Address: Los Angeles, CA

Dear family of David James Barry,

On behalf of the Travelers' Century Club, please accept our most sincere condolences on the passing of David Barry, not just our past president, but also our friend.

David was active in his involvement with Travelers' Century Club matters and always prioritized attending the quarterly meetings and luncheons. 

Personally, David was genuinely kind to me when I joined the TCC board in 2015 and was quite thorough in the handling of our insurance affairs. I distinctly remember when David transitioned this portfolio over to me. He was meticulously organized with colored binders of insurance policies. I truly felt the need to "study up" because this tall and imposing traveler kept quizzing me. 

As a traveler, I may not have known David's journey, but any traveler who sees the world in excess of 100 countries must've embraced humanity with openness and kindness.

The Travelers' Century Club is forever grateful for David's contributions and we'll truly miss his friendship.

Sincerely,
Timothy Skeet
President
Travelers' Century Club

Please rearrange my comments I sent. Please put the 1st part at the beginning and then part 2 towards the end, thanks BB

Continued from Part 1: David Barry spent hours upon hours studying each country and learned about the culture in each country.

David met his first wife Marianna in Cape Cod. Together, they had 4 children: Sabrina Sanz from Boston, Barnaby Barry (BB) from LA, and Jeff Barry from Carlsbad and Debbie (deceased). David also married Mary and had a son, David Jr. from Colorado. David was also married to Isabel and had 3 step children (Bobby, Richie and Lillian), David had 5 grand kids: Larissa Sanz, Alexandria Sanz, Nathalie Barry, Helennah Barry and Kevin James Barry. 

In his spare time, he loved his cat-Bitty Bat, loved Asian-Polish food, spent hours watching  NFL-NBA games-tennis matches and classic movies from the 1930’s-1950’s, loved doing his own taxes (documented all his expenses in ledger books during his entire life), spent hours investing in the stock market, enjoyed watching his children and grand children study and become professionals, enjoyed his Santa Monica townhome, loved women from Poland and Germany, played tennis daily and attended many educational lectures throughout Los Angeles (PRS-CFI). He also served in the United States Navy from 1953-1955 (was cryptologist for the National Security Agency) and on several Boards of his condo associations. 

He had a very close and loving relationship with his grandmother (Josephine Burton) as a young boy and would often visit her in Santa Monica and as a result he was a lifeguard as a teenager in Santa Monica and his internment is with her at Holy Cross cemetery.  He was especially fond of nurses, military officers and college professors. 

DB’s burial will be at Holy Cross, Culver City, California on 3-15-21 at 11 am. 

God bless David James Barry.



David J. Barry (DB) passed away unexpectedly on January 10, 2021 at the age of 89 due to aspiration pneumonia. Fortunately, he did not battle with serious medical issues; he died in peace at Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California. We thank all the medical workers at Saint John’s for helping our dad transition. 

David J. Barry received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology degree from Stanford University in 1953 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of California-Berkeley in 1956. He started his career as a management trainee with the Carnation Tuna Company in 1955 and worked for over 40 years in the Insurance field and worked in large, national multi-line insurer as a sales representative. His specialty was on administration of all lines of insurance for lumber dealers and hospitals. In 1961, he was accredited as a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and was designated as chairman for Insurance Brokers Society of Los Angeles Workers’ Compensation Committee. He joined Bayly Martin and Fay in 1968 as an account executive, and was subsequently named an assistant Vice President of the Los Angeles Division of Bayly, Martin & Fay, an international insurance brokerage and administration firm based in Los Angeles, California in 1975.  He was also a member of the Jonathan Club (Los Angeles and Santa Monica), Plato society (West LA) and the Brokers Society of Southern California. He received many rewards as top sales person throughout his career.
 David loved to travel (was a previous President of the Travelers Century club in Los Angeles), and was certified to having reached The Global Ambassador gold level of achievement by visiting 207 countries and island groups around the globe. Among those countries and island groups he traveled were: Caribbean, Central North and South America, Africa, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Europe and Mediterranean, Near East, Pacific Ocean, and the Retired Countries. Part 1

OBITUARIO

David James Barry

26 mayo, 1931 – 10 enero, 2021

Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary

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