Chris Barrett:  

Life Any of you that will remember me at all will probably remember me as "Chris" rather than Thomas. I was in the band, played flute. Also in the choir, sang bass and baritone and did some solo work. Also acted in the school plays. After graduating from Lutcher Stark in 1958, I attended George Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, California for one semester but a death in the family interrupted my college pursuits. I was required to return to Batesville, Arkansas, the place of my birth, where I restarted college at Arkansas College. I graduated in 1963 with a BA in Liberal Arts, Major in Voice, with minors in Speech and Drama and Education. I married Judy Matlock, of Batesville, my senior year. I taught school for 5 years. My marriage and my teaching career came to a screeching halt in 1968. Judy and I had 2 daughters, Christi and Chandra. She was awarded custody and I went to St Louis and started a "career" working with CT Corporation System. While there I ran into an ex-student, Marilyn Pearman, for whom I, and every other male in town, had lusted during the last year of teaching in Malden, Missouri. The feelings I found had been mutual. After a whirlwind courtship we married. Marilyn and I had 1 son, Josh. After 5 years we split and ultimately divorced. I then decided I had held back long enough so I resigned from my job with CT and began acting and singing for a living. It was what I had wanted to do all my life but I had just been too hesitant. For several years I performed in St Louis and Kansas City at the MUNY and the Starlight Theatres and I also sang in numerous hotels and supper clubs in the area. Great times for a bachelor. In 1977 I moved to Beaumont, Texas....Expand for more