William H. Barbee Jr.

2009

William H. Barbee Jr., 71, a program analyst at the Department of Veterans Affairs for 30
years, died Sept. 16 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington. He had esophageal
cancer.

From 1955 to 1958, Mr. Barbee served in the Navy as a reconnaissance photographer. After
active duty, Mr. Barbee spent five years working in southeast Asia for Civil Air Transport,
which later became Air America.

He worked in sales and marketing for other companies, including Pan American World
Airways and Trans World Airlines, before working for the Peace Corps as a liaison and foreign
travel coordinator. He joined what was then the Veterans Administration in 1972 and retired
from there in 2002 as a program analyst.

William Henry Barbee Jr., a New Carrollton resident, was born in the District. He graduated
from
Anacostia High School in 1955 and the University of Maryland with a business degree
in 1972. He received a master's degree in business from the University of Southern California
in the late 1970s through an extension program offered in the District.

His wife of 46 years, Elizabeth Baumgardner Barbee, died in 2006.

Survivors include four children, Christian Barbee of New Carrollton, William H. Barbee III of
Newbury Park, Calif., Marta Boyer of Marriottsville, and Erica Salazar of Camarillo, Calif.; and
six grandchildren.

-- T. Rees Shapiro