Charles W. Barbour Sports Editor

Charles William Barbour, 89, an assistant sports editor at the Washington Star from 1954 to 1977, died June 25 at Inova Loudoun Hospital Center in Leesburg of pneumonia.

Early in his career, Mr. Barbour, a Washington native, was a sports editor for the old Washington Times-Herald. He started at the paper in the late 1930s as a copy boy and became a sports writer covering high school sports when he returned from Army service in World War II. He received the Purple Heart after he was wounded, losing sight in his left eye, during the Battle of the Bulge.

He was a member of Knights of the Columbus, the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge and the old Sixth Armored Division Association, where he served as a past president.

He was a Washington resident until 1955, when he moved to Springfield. He relocated to Orlando in 1977 and returned to Ashburn in 2005.

His wife of 50 years, Frances Bucher Barbour, died in 1999.

Survivors include four children, Pamela Freer of Reston, Gail Johnson of Commerce Township, Mich., Michael Barbour of Abell, Md., and Charles Barbour of Roswell, Ga.; two brothers, Willard Barbour of Mount Airy, Md., and Jimmy Barbour of Daytona Beach, Fla.; two sisters, Sharon Bartlett of Minneapolis and Josephine Apperson of White Plains, Md.; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.