Listed as Bennie on his birth certificate, but was called Ben and then "Barney" because there were too many Bens and Bennies and Bennys in the neighborhood.
He grew up in a Yiddish speaking home on the east side of Cleveland, a 1st generation American with Russian Jewish parents, Alex and Rose (nee Czamik) Baranoff.
He met Frances Sylvia Wolinsky at a Workmen's Circle function in 1941 and on August 30, 1942 he married her in the Ballroom of the Portage Hotel, Akron, OH complete with a "sweet table". He was one of the few men present as he had been classified 4F and was exempt from military duty during WWII. Fran and Barney had three children.
Barney owned and ran Exchange Auto Parts on W. Exchange Street until the City of Akron took the property, along with several others, to build the Innerbelt Expressway. He then became a partner of his brother-in-law, Harold Wolinsky, in Park Auto Parts on S. Main Street.
He was an active and involved member of the Akron Workmen's Circle all his adult life, until his disease interfered. Diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 1975 (one of the very early cases diagnosed). He died 10 years later of complications of the disease.
He grew up in a Yiddish speaking home on the east side of Cleveland, a 1st generation American with Russian Jewish parents, Alex and Rose (nee Czamik) Baranoff.
He met Frances Sylvia Wolinsky at a Workmen's Circle function in 1941 and on August 30, 1942 he married her in the Ballroom of the Portage Hotel, Akron, OH complete with a "sweet table". He was one of the few men present as he had been classified 4F and was exempt from military duty during WWII. Fran and Barney had three children.
Barney owned and ran Exchange Auto Parts on W. Exchange Street until the City of Akron took the property, along with several others, to build the Innerbelt Expressway. He then became a partner of his brother-in-law, Harold Wolinsky, in Park Auto Parts on S. Main Street.
He was an active and involved member of the Akron Workmen's Circle all his adult life, until his disease interfered. Diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 1975 (one of the very early cases diagnosed). He died 10 years later of complications of the disease.
Listed as Bennie on his birth certificate, but was called Ben and then "Barney" because there were too many Bens and Bennies and Bennys in the neighborhood.
He grew up in a Yiddish speaking home on the east side of Cleveland, a 1st generation American with Russian Jewish parents, Alex and Rose (nee Czamik) Baranoff.
He met Frances Sylvia Wolinsky at a Workmen's Circle function in 1941 and on August 30, 1942 he married her in the Ballroom of the Portage Hotel, Akron, OH complete with a "sweet table". He was one of the few men present as he had been classified 4F and was exempt from military duty during WWII. Fran and Barney had three children.
Barney owned and ran Exchange Auto Parts on W. Exchange Street until the City of Akron took the property, along with several others, to build the Innerbelt Expressway. He then became a partner of his brother-in-law, Harold Wolinsky, in Park Auto Parts on S. Main Street.
He was an active and involved member of the Akron Workmen's Circle all his adult life, until his disease interfered. Diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 1975 (one of the very early cases diagnosed). He died 10 years later of complications of the disease.
He grew up in a Yiddish speaking home on the east side of Cleveland, a 1st generation American with Russian Jewish parents, Alex and Rose (nee Czamik) Baranoff.
He met Frances Sylvia Wolinsky at a Workmen's Circle function in 1941 and on August 30, 1942 he married her in the Ballroom of the Portage Hotel, Akron, OH complete with a "sweet table". He was one of the few men present as he had been classified 4F and was exempt from military duty during WWII. Fran and Barney had three children.
Barney owned and ran Exchange Auto Parts on W. Exchange Street until the City of Akron took the property, along with several others, to build the Innerbelt Expressway. He then became a partner of his brother-in-law, Harold Wolinsky, in Park Auto Parts on S. Main Street.
He was an active and involved member of the Akron Workmen's Circle all his adult life, until his disease interfered. Diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 1975 (one of the very early cases diagnosed). He died 10 years later of complications of the disease.
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