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Family services were private and his ashes will be scattered over the Pacific Ocean.
He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941 and after the attack on Pearl Harbor, was commissioned in the U.S. Marine Corps as a naval aviator. He received many medals for heroism in World War II and the Korean War, and was fundamental in the establishment of the Korean War Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C. and the Korean War Project on the Internet. His last duty station was at MCAS, New River as Executive Officer of H&HS Squadron in 1965.
Survivors include his wife of 66 years, Geraldine Brown Barker; and two sons, Edward L. Barker Jr. and Harold R. Barker of Dallas, Texas.
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