| Barry, Dajuanald Patrick 150550 |
| Birth: 04/19/1983 Death: 01/25/1985 Marriage: |
| Cemetery: Thicket Black (NOT PLOTTED) |
| Record Source: Lamar County Echo, The Paris News |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/17/2025) |
| Notes LAMAR COUNTY ECHO, Thu., Jan. 31, 1985: ‘Dajuanald Patrick Barry and Tiffany Brown, 1040-7th NW, Casa Bonita Apartments, died Friday Jan. 25, in their home. Graveside services were held Monday, Jan. 28, at Restlawn Gardens Cemetery with Rev. Richard Jones, pastor of Greater Mount Carmel Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was under the direction of Maxey Funeral Home. Dajuanald was born April 19, 1983, in Paris, a son of Teresa and Ronald Patrick Barry. Survivors include his parents, Ronald Barry and Teresa Young of Paris; grandparents, Thelma and Booker T. Barry of Paris. Tiffany was born on Aug. 17, 1982, a daughter of Gary and Sharon Brown. Survivors include her mother, Sharon Brown of Paris; three sisters, Demetrice Wade, Batonika Wade and Gelkia Brown, all of Paris; grandparents, Mamie Ryan of Paris and Pearline Simpson of Paris’. THE PARIS NEWS-Jan.25,1985-Two infants die in Casa Bonita fire-Two infants died Friday morning in a second-story apartment fire at the Casa Bonita Apartments, 1040-7th NW. Authorities said that the children were Tiffany Brown, age 2, daughter of Sharon Brown, and Dajunald Barry, age l, son of Theresa Barry, both residents of apartment 516 in building 21. Ms. Brown and Ms. Barry are sisters and they share the apartment, authorities said. The infants were pronounced dead at the scene at 10 a.m. by Justice of the Peace Chester Oakes. "The fire definitely started in the living room on or near the couch and our report right now is going to show possibly... possibly kids playing with matches," said Fire Marshal Rick Evans. Evans said that the children were not alone in the apartment, but that they may have been alone in the living room when the fire started. Police said that adults were in a back bedroom and they dropped to the ground from a back window because the smoke was too thick for them to enter the living room. At one time smoke alarms were placed in all of the units at the Casa Bonita Apartments, but Evans said Friday morning that the smoke alarm was not operating in the apartment where the fire occurred. "There's one alarm in that whole building that is working and that's in a downstairs apartment," Fire Chief Steve Burgin said. Eight apartments are in the building. "In the apartment where the fire started, we didn't even find the remains of one (a smoke alarm)," Evans said. In checking the other apartments in the building officials found smoke alarms that had dead batteries and that had components missing, making them inoperable. State law now requires the landlord of any type of rental property, where a person sleeps, to install a smoke alarm. The tenant then has the responsibility of maintaining the alarm and changing the batteries when they run down. If the landlord does not install a smoke alarm, "the tenant has the right to sue the landlord," Evans said, adding that there are no criminal penalties. Friday morning's fire is the third apartment fire in Paris in the past three days. Officials do not believe the fires are related. Maxey Funeral Home is handling funeral arrangements for the two children. |