Birth date: Feb 27, 1925 Death date: Nov 30, 2014
Mark L. Barkalow Mark was born February 27, 1925 in Germantown to Edna Mae (Ebberts) and Chester Barkalow. He grew up on the family farm before graduating from Germantown High School. He served his country with honor in the U.S. A Read Obituary
Dear Dottie & Family,
Please accept our deepest sympathy--what a nice guy he was! We always looked forward to seeing both of you at the GHS Alumni Dinner each year in June, catching up & talking about his latest golfing adventures!!! It truly makes me sad that I've lost another relative.
Take care, you & your family are in our prayers & may Mark rest in peace.
First of all I want to express my sympathy to Mark’s family and community of friends for your loss. I observed in this morning’s edition of the Dayton Daily News the obituary of Mark Barkalow. I was drawn to read the entire obituary as the name Barkalow was mentioned periodically to me by my late father whose maternal aunt Mary Louise Yingling married John Fox Barkalow. Their son Bruce Barkalow was my father Fred Werner’s 1st cousin. Fred’s mother was Emma Yingling Werner, the sister of Mary Louise Yingling Barkalow.
My late Aunt Eva Wener Friedline (Fred’s sister) was a long time resident of Germantown, having married Edgar Friedline and raised their son my 1st cousin Donald Eugene Friedline. I noticed in Mark’s obituary that it was his family that owned the farmland that became Jamaica Run golf course. My cousin Donald Friedline purchased a part of that farmland with frontage on Jamaica road and lived there for many years with his wife Relma Heitz and their three childrenPamela, Darlene and John. Relma’s family also owned a farm on Jamaica road.
If Mark ever hit an errant golf ball anywhere close to my cousin’s back yard, as apparently many golfers did, I can attest to you that Donald Friedline would place that ball into what became dozens of egg cartons. As a matter of fact I rarely had to buy any golf balls during my golfing days thanks to Don.
I regret not having met Mark as we both worked at The Reynolds and Reynolds Company where I was a VP of R&D during the 1980s.
My Grandfather William Christian Werner who came from Kirchheim Unter Tech Germany at age 15 first lived in Gratis in Preble County where he married Emma Yingling. Later he brought his family to Germantown where he had the town’s bakery that was then located immediately to the west of the Florintine (sp) Hotel.
I am not at all sure if the following Barkalow’s were directly related to Mark and his ancestors but I thought that Mark and My cousin Donald Friedline may have known each other during their school years in Germantown.Donald was born in Germantown a little more than three years after Mark’s birth. Donald was born June 7, 1928. He passed away May 16, 2006 and is buried in Germantown.
Here is a brief about the Barkalows that my father Fred Werner used to talk about.
Samuel Barkalow and Sarah Fox
Samuel Barkalow was born in 1835 in Ohio. He had two sons with Sarah Fox Barkalow between 1867 and 1869. They were John Fox Barkalow and Isaac Barkalow, respectively. In 1870, Samuel Barkalow was 35 years old and lived in Miami Township, Montgomery County, Ohio with his wife Sarah and two sons.
John Fox Barkalow and Mary Louise Yingling
When John Fox Barkalow was born on August 3, 1867, in Franklin, Ohio, his father, Samuel, was 32 and his mother, Sarah, was 25. He married Mary Louise Yingling on November 4, 1903, in Ohio. They had one child during their marriage, Bruce Barkalow. Except for a period between 1920 and 1927 when John lived in Gratis Ohio with his wife Mary Louise Yingling who was born November 6, 1868 in Gratis, he lived in the Dayton Ohio area. He died on July 7, 1946, in Montgomery County, Ohio, at the age of 78, and was buried in Gratis, Preble County Ohio. His wife Mary died August 10, 1948 and was also buried in Gratis.
Bruce Barkalow
Bruce Barkalow was born on May 27, 1905, in Montgomery County, Ohio, the only child of John Fox and Mary Louise. In 1910, Bruce Barkalow was 4 years old and lived in Dayton, Ohio with his father, mother, step-brother, and step-sister. In 1920, Bruce Barkalow was 14 years old and lived in Gratis, Ohio with his father and mother. At the age of 17 years 1 month and 9 days Bruce’s young life ended on July 6, 1922, in Gratis, Ohio.
The following two remembrances of Bruce were posted on Ancestry.com by ladyaibrean
1. Commencement exercises will be held at the community Hall on Saturday evening, May 6th. The Germantown High School orchestra will furnish the music. The graduates are: Leona House; Mamie Holcomb
My deepest condolences for the Barkalow family. I will greatly miss seeing Mark at Ohmer Park UMC, and hearing about how his golf games for the week were! Then he would ask how my dad was doing, who also loved to golf. Mark never met my dad, Harry Stillwell, but came to his viewing when he passed away in August, even though he wasn't feeling well himself. Now he's in Heaven with my dad comparing golf stories. I'll never forget Mark, and I love him dearly!!
