Aaron Barkett's Obituary
King and I welcomed Aaron into the family on December 30th 1977. Mills Memorial Hospital served us a New Year’s Eve celebratory dinner.
Aaron was a cause for celebration. He was smart, strong and capable with an inquiring mind. I remember Aaron following King around the house always asking “What Doing? What Doing?” King taught Aaron a trade, how to install floors. Their business card began:
King’s Flooring
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Aaron also joined Iron Worker’s Union and the Sheet Metal Union. He worked on the new Harvey Milk Terminal at SFO Airport and the new Apple Campus in Cupertino.
Aaron loved his Tesla Red Harley Davidson Motorcycle, his 1977 Ford Truck and skiing behind his boat.
Aaron was a dare devil, a wild child. He drove his Harley too fast and tossed caution to the wind. He suffered some life threatening accidents. He was hit by a car on his bicycle when he was a boy and later as an adult suffered a horrible snow mobile accident. He was air lifted to Modesto’s trama drama center and spent a month in Intensive Care being patched back together. (Aaron began his rehabilitation on a Mexican cruise with his sister Kate and his mom wearing a full body brace and using a steel wheel chair.)
On a lighter note Aaron enjoyed traveling to Paris, Australia, the Hawaiian Islands, Minnesota, Florida’s Epcot Center and LAX Disney Land, Zip Lining in Santa Cruz, camping and cruises to Alaska and Mexico with his family and many a Holiday dinner here in his home in Belmont.
And on an incredibly tragic note, Jason Jurow, his brother-in-law, and I, his mother, found Aaron dead in his bed, here in his home in Belmont, two days after Easter on April 11, 2023. The cause is
yet to be determined.
He is survived by his three sisters, Kelli Magill, Jade Barkett and Kathryn Jurow and his mother Pat Barkett.
His father, King Barkett and his Uncle Lee Barkett died the previous summer. They will be joining their parents, Rosemary and Lee Dewey Barkett, who have gone before them into the Great Beyond.
Aaron’s life was far too short. We will miss him forever.
His mother, Pat
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