Barry Bradford Telford of De Kalb, Texas passed away Saturday, June 1, 2024 at a Mount Pleasant, Texas hospital. He was 77.
Barry was born October 24, 1946, in New Boston, Texas, to John Quincy and Bertha Van Hooser Telford. On September 3, 1966, he was married to Marsha Cunningham in De Kalb, Texas. Barry was the owner/operator of Telford Propane and was an 18 year member of the Texas House of Representatives. He was a member of the De Kalb Masonic Lodge #9, the Maud Gun Club and a member of First United Methodist Church in De Kalb, Texas. Barry loved skeet shooting, hunting and was a voracious reader.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, infant John Wayne and Van Quincy Telford; grandson infant Jackson Darden Telford; sisters-in-law Janie Ellis Telford and Gloria Cunningham Cheney; brothers-in-law James Cunningham, Robert Smith, and Nelson Cheney.