Eugene Barraro, 87, active Democrat

Word has been received that Eugene J. Barraro, a retired postal worker and former active Democrat in Ridgefield, died Jan. 21 at Delray Medical Center in Delray, Fla. He was 87 years old and the husband of Adele Barraro.
A native of Orange, N.J., Mr. Barraro was born on Oct. 12, 1913, and had attended New York University. He had worked for the U.S. Postal Service, retiring in 1969, the year he moved to Olmstead Lane in Ridgefield.
While here Mr. Barraro was active in the Democratic Party. “Those who knew Gene will agree that he was the consummate Democrat,” said Mrs. Barraro.
For many years he was a party worker, but in 1987, he was elected a member of the Democratic Town Committee. At the meeting at which he was interviewed for the job, committee members recalled his exceptional talent at selling tickets for party fund-raising events.
“If I got a little over-exuberant,” he replied with a smile, “it’s because I thought we needed the money.”
Mr. Barraro had also been active in Scouting and had been a member of the Ridgefield Lions Club.
Since 1990, the Barraros had wintered in Boynton Beach, Fla. In 1997 they moved from Ridgefield to Centerville, Mass.
Besides his wife, Mr. Barraro is survived by a son, Eugene Barraro Jr. of Atco, N.J, and a daughter, Corinne Gaye Mirer of Boca Raton, Fla.; two grandsons, Christopher Barraro of Merchantsville, N.J., and Zachary Mirer of Boca Raton; a brother, Russell Barraro of Boynton Beach; two sisters, Vivian Curto of West Orange, N.J., and Joan Messira of Bloomfield, N.J., as well as several nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by his first wife, Irma.