Cornelius Boyden Barger, 89, of Hollywood, MD, devoted husband and father of three children, died peacefully in his home on Monday, September 9, 2013 after a long illness. The beloved husband of E. Lois Barger and son of the late Carr Cornelius Calvin Barger and Beulah Senora Hart, he was born May 17, 1924 in Wilmington, VA. Boyden, or C.B. as he introduced himself, moved with his family from a farm in Virginia to a 300+ acre farm on Brown Station Road in Upper Marlboro, MD at the age of 14. He attended Marlboro High School and helped on the family farm, worked at Southern States and at Glenn L. Martin during WWII, and earned a B.S. in Animal Husbandry from the University of Maryland in 1948. On the farm, he and his family raised beef cattle and sheep, and grew corn, tobacco, and hay (among other things). Boyden started a gravel and topsoil business on the farm, and this became his main source of income for many years. Some of the other businesses he owned or helped operate were Brown Station convenience store, as well as a Gulf fuel station and store in Upper Marlboro; also, he sold fertilizer to […]
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