As you probably know by now, Bob Barry Sr. died from an apparent heart attack over the weekend. Barry was the long-time play-by-play voice of the OU (and OSU) football and men's basketball teams and the Sports Director for KFOR Channel 4 from 1970-1997.
From all accounts, Barry was the classiest of class acts. The guy was kind, sincere, and lacked the massive ego and vanity that curses so many of his colleagues and peers (see: Blevins, Dean or Traber, Jim). My 80-year-old grandmother still brags about the night he took her on a friendly date to a Capital Hill High School football game in an ambulance in the late 30s or early 40s. She said he was "a very likeable and handsome man."