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Barry Wayne Webb

Barry Webb Obituary

Barry Wayne Webb

Nov. 2, 1960 - May 22, 2023

ST. GEORGE, UT - It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of our beloved brother, Barry Wayne Webb. He died very unexpectedly in his sleep on May 22, 2023 at his home in St. George, Utah.

Barry was born on November 2, 1960 to Barbara and Lloyd Webb in Twin Falls, Idaho. The youngest child of four, Barry was joyful, spirited, funny, intelligent and resourceful. Even as a very young child he was valued as a problem-solver. He could always find missing keys.

Barry was a favorite among his classmates at Twin Falls High School. This was true despite a rather nerdy fondness for The Debate Club. He won a state championship and received scholarship offers as far away as Texas and Pennsylvania.

None-the-less, he elected to stay and attended university in the Inter-Mountain West.

He eventually landed in the hospitality business in Jackson, Wyoming. He lived and worked there for over thirty years. On his days off he would head up to the hot springs of Montana, or sojourn back to southern Idaho. He had a particular fondness for uncrowded places like Murphy's Hot Springs in Owyhee County, Idaho or Jarbidge, Nevada. He liked gambling in places like Jackpot or Mesquite, Nevada. And, he was very enthusiastically competitive about an ongoing horseshoe throwing competition with his long-time friend, Kurt Rosenau.

Although Barry never married, he was indeed a family man, and the gifts he gave his elders, siblings, cousins, nephews and nieces were numerous and varied. For example, he drove his aunt Clarene and uncle Creed all over Southern Utah during the pandemic just to keep them from going crazy with boredom. We siblings were particularly grateful for his attention to mom and dad. He helped them in every way he could. After dad died, he took mom to the Utah Shakespeare Festival every year.

His nieces and nephews were honored and pleased when they'd show up in Jackson and he'd grill up a dinner for them and their friends no matter the hour. Sometimes that was midnight.

Barry was an all around good guy, and a bit of a character. He will be sorely missed.

Barry is survived by his siblings: Kevan Webb and his wife Donna Webb, Curtis Webb and his wife, Kristy Webb, and Carolea Webb and her husband, Bruce Wright. He is also survived by his nieces and nephews, Katharine, Clark, Alexander, Nichole and Anne Webb as well as Ian and Amy Wright. He was predeceased by his parents, Lloyd and Barbara Webb, and his nephew, Riley Webb.

The family plans a life celebration on July 22, 2023 in Twin Falls, Idaho. Exact time and place are yet to be determined.

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Published by Magic Valley Times-News on Jun. 1, 2023.

Memories and Condolences
for Barry Webb

11 Entries

Vali Carpenter

July 27, 2023

I am so very sorry to hear of this heartbreaking news! Barry was a dear Jackson Hole friend since the mid nineties and we have been on many fun loving adventures and camp trips together!! My sincere condolences go out to his family and all who were blessed to have had him in their lives. I found out too late to make his celebration of life in Twin Falls which I regret Could a family member please reach out to me, Vali Carpenter at 307-920-0158. The only address I have is Barry's address in St George

Jeanne Christian

July 17, 2023

I´ll never forget when Barry & I went over to Diamondz Bar in Jerome and partied. Such a fun night! I miss him terribly

Carolea Webb

July 12, 2023

A Celebration of Barry's Life, hosted by the family, will be held on Saturday, July 22, 2023 at 11:30am - 2:30pm at the Canyon Crest Event Center, 330 Canyon Crest Dr. Twin Falls, Idaho.

RICK WEBB

June 7, 2023

Sorry to hear this news, Please let us know where the celebration will be held.
Ricky Webb

Mike Topholm Top-dawg

June 6, 2023

It's such a sad day to learn of Barry's passing. I was fortunate to see Barry a few years ago in our hometown, Twin Falls. The memories, and great times shared are truly etched deeply in my mind. I could share so many stories from Halloween egg throwing, to parties everywhere, to the infamous Jeep ride to a football game in Boise, Blue Lakes CC exploits at Bass Lake! The memories go on and on for a life time. Barry was a character, in its truest sense! But then so were us all! I smile because I knew him, I shed tears because he is gone.

Dan Winder

June 3, 2023

It is with great sadness that we say good bye to a great young man and hard worker. He is following not far behind two of our greatest friends. They family is felling a great void in our lives. We will miss you greatly BARRY !!!

Stuart Starry

June 3, 2023

Stuart Starry

June 3, 2023

Stuart Starry

June 3, 2023

I haven't seen Barry in 12 years and always thought I would see him again. I truly regret that I didn't see him more often. He was living in Jackson Wyoming at the time of my last visit. He let my daughter ride sitting up on the trunk of his top-down, convertible Mercedes, though downtown Jackson on a beautiful day. You would have thought she was homecoming queen!

Barry was my debate partner in high school.
Through that experience he became my friend. We would go over to his house to practice and would end up playing records. Every time I hear a Lou Reed song, I think of those times.

We drove all the way from Idaho to Baylor Debate Camp in Waco Texas.... in his car which he named "old blue." We snuck out of the dorms at night and were truant during the day. We climbed out the second story and used milk crates that were on the side of the building to get down. Then were were locked out and had to sleep outside on the grass until morning! Funny memories! We were late for classes, so Barry went by a drug store and bought a bottle of Kaopectate. He flashed it to the debate coach as we walked in late, then set the bottle prominently on his desk, looked over and winked at me. Coach did not say a word! Barry was a character to behold!

Then he got the Jeep. We would cruise down to the Falls in that jeep and go 4-wheeling. We would sneak onto the grounds of the Blue Lakes Country Club, and hang out with Mike Harrison and a few others, just killing time. We had so much fun going to debate camps and tournaments and causing an "Idaho" stir in the south and back east. My daughter now goes to the University of Pittsburgh. So every time I visit her, I see the dorms in which Barry and stayed and raised cane. We learned how to lock other kids into thier own dorm rooms using pennies to bind the door. It was so great for a couple young rebels. I laugh and smile whenever I think of Barry.

I have such fond memories of his young smart-alec, rebel days. The pranks we pulled would astound (but not surprise) some of you!

We flew to Cincinnati for the National Debate Tournament our senior year, and drove that ragtop Jeep to Salt Lake in freezing wet weather at the crack of dawn to make the flight. Barry made sure that we hooked up with a Cincinnati local that we met at Pitt. Barry was set on a big agenda. We went to a Reds Game, King Island, and a couple local parties. Barry's loud and people-loving personality was one of the highlights of my highschool years.

These are just a few of the many memories I have with Barry. I'm already missing him.

Michael Harrison

June 2, 2023

Barry Webb saved my life, but more than that, he was my best friend. We met at Washington Elementary in the first grade, rode our bikes to school, played basketball, hunted and fished, attended each other´s birthday parties, swam at Bass Lake, lunched at the Blue Lakes Country Club, confided in crushes on girls, went to rock concerts, and competed scholastically through high school. Barry and his partner Stuart Starry ultimately won the Idaho State Debate Championship in 1979, while Keith Briggs and I won the Southern Idaho Conference Debate Championship the same year. In youth Barry had a precocious intelligence, a razor wit, an easy laugh, a ready smile, good looks, compassionate generosity, and a glib gift of speech that made him popular among his peers... and if that wasn´t enough, he also had a sky-blue CJ-7 Jeep that made him the envy of most of his classmates. During his youth Barry spent part of most summers in Jackson Hole, Wyo., working for his uncle and aunt, Creed and Clarene Law.

Barry´s love of Jackson, Wyoming never left him. Despite the ease of learning and incipient joys of college in Coeur d´ Alene, Idaho, Barry dreamed of returning to Jackson... as usual, Barry made his dreams come true. Kevan, Barry´s brother who had bought a home there, and his Aunt Clarene, who owned the Antler Hotel and the 49´er Inn and Suites, welcomed Barry with opened arms. Aunt Clarene appreciated Barry´s gracious manners, trustworthy devotion to family, friendly smile and dutiful organization skills, even if she was never really comfortable with the length of Barry´s auburn locks which he wore in a leonine fashion.

It was several years after Barry had been working in Jackson that he chanced to save my life.

I had married my college sweetheart; Barry was my Best Man. When the marriage dissolved, like tissue in water, so did I. Six months later, driving south, I called Barry; he offered a place to rest overnight on my way through town. After hours catching-up, Barry asked where I was going next, then, not satisfied with my answer, he told me, "Mike, stay here. We have a spare bedroom. You´ll have a new job tomorrow and new women to break your heart." He was right on both counts.

More than 36 years have passed since then, and through most of them I lived and/or worked happily in Jackson, though I only lived with Barry for six months. Barry helped me find a job in my profession that paid well. I met a woman in Jackson who values me as I do her. We spent our first 4th of July on the roof of Barry´s house watching fireworks, 28 years ago, still together. I built a log cabin in neighboring Teton Valley, Idaho 17 years ago, and was honored when Barry was the first friend to cross my threshold.

I will never know what my life would have been like if I had never known Barry Webb, but no man could wish for a better life, or a better best friend. My world will be poorer without him. I can only imagine the grief his siblings must feel. I will leave you one of Barry´s favorite bits of doggerel, from a 1976, National Lampoon:

A Pack of Wild Dogs,
A Pack of Wild Dogs are We,
We Roam the Hills
Bereft of Skills,
And Care Not Where We Pee.

Good Bye Bare-Dog! You were a true Gentle Man.

Kathie Wooten Fogg

June 2, 2023

Oh my goodness! Dear sweet Barry! I have known you since elementary school. You were ALWAYS kind to me. When other kiddos made fun of me, and the run down home I was raised in, you made them stop. My heart is broken and at the same time full of joy because I knew you!! Thank you Barry for being a wonderful protector!!!

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