Barnes, Conard, 72, died Monday. Service: 2 p.m. Monday at William L. Danks Funeral Home. Burial: Mason Cemetery, Rockport, with full military honors. Visitation: 10 a.m. until the time of
His mother was a devout Catholic, his father agnostic. He became an acolyte at age 10 in 1890 at St. Martin’s Catholic Church. In the years that followed, he became disillusioned: his priest was a cynic.