HONOLULU, Hawaii 0 December 24th 2011

Obituary 

Retired Rear Adm. John M. "Jack" Barrett, who served in Hawai'i, was instrumental in the development of the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park and was a founding director of the Pacific Fleet Submarine Memorial Association, died Saturday at his home in White Salmon, Wash. He was 89.  

Kristin "Kiddy" DeCoster, who also helped develop Bowfin Park, said Barrett was a good man who cherished all the volunteers who worked to create and maintain the park. "When we started the submarine park, it was nothing but weeds and junk cars," DeCoster said. The park, next to the USS Arizona Memorial, attracts thousands of visitors a year. It is there that Barrett prevailed over opposition to placing 51 memorials to lost submariners and subma- rines, DeCoster said.