Barrie Munro, a longtime resident of southern Maine, died at his Kittery home on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. He was 98.

He was born to Herbert Stewart Munro and Carolyn (Vogt) Munro on Sept. 8, 1926, in Philadelphia, Pa. He spent his childhood in the Philadelphia area but attended high school at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., where he graduated in 1944. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy for two years prior to earning a bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University in Princeton, N.J.

While attending college, he met his wife, Elizabeth Jane Voegel. They married in Collingswood, N.J., on July 2, 1949. She preceded him in death in 2014. The couple made a home in Willow Grove and Huntingdon Valley, Pa. Barrie worked as a salesman, manager and an executive for Xerox for more than 30 years. In 1973, they moved to Rochester, N.Y., where he eventually retired from Xerox. Soon thereafter, in 1987, they moved to York, Maine.

Barrie served as president of his homeowners association at York River Farms and was on the York Planning Board for 16 years. In addition, he founded and served as chair of the York Historical Markers Committee. A life­ long outdoor enthusiast, he was an avid fisherman and could be seen paddling and fishing from his kayak on area ponds and the York River into his 90s. Barrie was a talented woodworker and furniture mal,er and focused his natural gifts on another passion in his later years: carving and painting birds. His work can still be found in shops around southern Maine.

He is survived by two sons, Thomas Munro and his wife Jean of Montrose, Colo., and Andrew Munro and his wife Carolyn of Delta, Colo., a daughter, Carolyn Munro and her husband John Hurd of Merida, Mexico; four grand­ children, Scott, Karen, Dana and Lindsey; and five great-grandchildren. A sister, Connie, preceded him death.

J.S. Pelkey and Son Funeral Home of Kittery, Maine, is in charge of arrangements. Services are private.