A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
From The Messenger, Baldwinsville, New York, April 30, 1980: Word has been received of the death of former resident Ronald E. Barnum, 50, in an accident while at work at a pumping station on the trans-Alaska oil pipeline. Barnum, a star athlete in the days leading up to his graduation from Baldwinsville Academy in 1949, was a master mechanic with Peter Kiewit & Son construction company when he met death on Thursday, April 17, 1980.
A Catholic rosary service was held the following Sunday at the Chapel of Chimes in Fairbanks followed by cremation. After finishing high school, Barnum worked as a car body and fender mechanic in Baldwinsville and eventually had his own shop here before deciding to get into the construction business. He was hired by the Kiewit Company in 1955, first working on the St. Lawrence Seaway project at Massena. Since then, his work took him and his family to job sites throughout the western United States. After working on a "temporary" job in Alaska for a year, he was transferred to Fairbanks in 1969. He was a member of Operating Engineers Local 302, and played softball in a Fairbanks program. During high school, Barnum was a member of the Academy’s baseball team that went undefeated for four seasons, a record that stood unsurpassed in the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown for many years. He was also an all-county quarterback, and a Golden Gloves champion. Surviving are his wife, the former Ginny Hartwell of Baldwinsville; twin sons, Kevin and Kyle: a daughter, Jody Ziegler; his parents, Gladys and Dale Barnum now of Mira Loma, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Kenneth (Joan) Burton of Baldwinsville; a brother, Jerry Barnum of Liverpool; and three grandchildren.
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