I just got back from ten days away from news sources. Got this e-mail from the JW Admin Forum and wondering if this has been discussed?:
I was informed early today that Brother Carey Barber of the GB finished his earthly assignment yesterday (4-8-2007).
Governing Body member Brother Carey W. Barber died in the Brooklyn infirmary last night April 8 (New York Time) at 101 years of age.
He is survived by his wife Sydney who was at a Circuit Assembly at the time. On arrival back at Bethel went immediately to see him only to find he had fallen asleep just shortly before
Born on the 4th of July 1905, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England.
On April 18, 1921, when he was 16 years old, he is baptized in a small assembly of the International Bible Students Association, in Winniped, Canada.
In April 1923 starts working at Bethel, together with his twin brother Norman.
In 1948 is appointed traveling overseer.
In 1955 enters the 26th Gilead class, where he found Sydney Lee Brewer, a pioneer from Canada, with whom he marries on February 18, 1956. Appointed to circuit service in the Chicago Area, U.S.A.
After 29 years as circuit and district overseer, he is called to the Brooklyn Bethel, to be a Governing Body member in the autumn of 1977