Funeral services for Darwin Lee ‘Pat’ Bartow, of Brookhaven, are3 p.m. on Sunday, April 10, at Riverwood Family Funeral ServiceChapel, with burial in Riverwood Memorial Park.

Visitation is Sunday from 1:30 p.m. until the time of the serviceat the funeral home.

Mr. Bartow, 85, died April 6, 2011, at his residence. He was bornin Illinois on May 20, 1925, to Charles Louis Bartow and LeonaBarding Bartow.

He was a loving husband to Virginia for 66 years and a lovingfather and grandfather. He lettered in four sports in high school,including football, basketball, baseball and track. He enlisted inthe United States Air Force right after graduating from highschool. He served during World War II as a flight engineer on a B17that was shot down over Hungary and was a prisoner of war inGermany until the end of the war in Europe.

Mr. Bartow retired from Keystone-Seneca in the early 1990s. A greatjoy in his later years was attending annual reunions of his flightcrew and the 463rd Bomb Group. He was a member of First UnitedMethodist Church in Brookhaven.

Preceding him in death were his parents.

Survivors are his wife, Virginia Ward Bartow; his daughters,Darlene Bartow Powell and husband, Clayton, Pamela Bartow Moye andhusband, Andrew, and Beverly Bartow and husband, Jim Stengel; hisbrother, Patrick Bartow and wife, Patricia; his sisters, HelenGordan, Mabel Pinkston and Doris DeClerk and husband, Bob; hisgrandchildren, Christopher Powell and wife, Anna, Sean Powell andwife, Brandi, Ryan Powell and wife, Anna, and Sarah Stengel; hisgreat-grandchildren, Jordan Powell Buie and husband, John, KylePowell, Riley Powell, Payton Powell, Jalen Powell, Stone Spann andJackson Green; and his great-great-grandchild, Rose Buie.

Memorials or gifts can be sent to the 463rd Bomb Group, P. O. Box1137, La Canada, CA 91012.

Sincere gratitude goes out to caregivers Becki Brown, LeslieCeazer, Dorothy Edwards, Maggie Hudson, Betty Lyon, MichelleO’Quinn and Annette Wade.

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