John Edward Barrick

Jack, as he liked to be called, attended Southern High School in Baltimore City, MD. He was a middle linebacker on the schools’ football team where he earned All American Honors and was the recipient of the 1959 McCormick Unsung Hero Award. He was nicknamed “Jarrin’ Jack” for the punishing hits he delivered to the opposing team’s offensive players. After high school he was offered a position playing for the Baltimore Colts at a salary of $20,000 by then Head Coach Don Shula, but Jack had other ideas. He also had an offer in hand to enter the Baltimore City Police Academy for a starting salary of $21,000. He took the latter and made a career being a different kind of hero.

Detective Sergeant Barrick spent 40 years with the Baltimore City Police Department, 20 of those years in CID Homicide. Over the course of his distinguished career, he was awarded 10 Bronze Stars, 26 Commendation Ribbons and 23 Commendatory Letters. He was voted Officer of the Year in 1972. In 2019 he was accepted into the Baltimore City Police Museum Hall of Fame. At his retirement ceremony in 2003, then Commissioner of the Baltimore City Police Department Kevin P Clark presented him with a plaque that read “What seems to speak the most to what made you a great cop, is what I have heard from your fellow officers. They use words like “work ethic,” “no nonsense,” and an investigator who “does not tolerate shortcuts.” It is also clear by the many high-profile cases you have handled that your supervisors saw the same thing.”

While his career in law enforcement was historic, it was not what truly defined him. Jack was a family man. Raised in the Catholic Church, he attended weekly service and when younger served as an altar boy. He made time to coach his children’s sports teams, engaged in his community and neighborhood activities. He stayed happily married to his high school sweetheart Lorraine for 61 years before her passing June 8, 2022. He did all of this while working in one of the toughest professions, investigating and arresting Baltimore’s most violent criminals. He is preceded in death by his wife Lorraine V. Barrick (nee Kraft), his Father John Barrick, Mother Mildred Barrick (nee Alvey) and his brother Charles Barrick

He is survived by three children, Kenneth A. Barrick (Michelle) of Cape Coral, FL, Jeffrey M. Barrick (Maria) of Port St. Lucie, FL and Michelle L Lloyd (Bob) of Westminster, MD; five grandchildren, Kayla Barrick, Madeline Barrick, Marleigh Lloyd, Blaike Lloyd and Brielle Lloyd; brother Truman Barrick of Baltimore, MD and sisters Pat Boeckman (nee Barrick,) Maggie Barrick and Faye Brooks (nee Barrick)

He will be laid to rest alongside his wife Lorraine in a graveside service on Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 1:00pm at the Coral Ridge Funeral Home and Cemetery, 950 Chiquita Blvd. S, Cape Coral, FL 33991. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to: Hope Hospice and Community Services, 9470 Health Park Circle, Fort Myers, FL 33908. There are no viewing services scheduled at this time.