Goodbye #AVTweeps: Final Farewell to Industry Pioneers
Mackey Barron, founder of HB Communications, died in late October 2015 at age 95. The event generated hundreds of emails, texts and phone calls to his son Dana, who has been CEO of HB Communications, the company his father started almost 70 years ago.
Dana Barron used many of those sentiments in the eulogy he delivered on his father’s behalf Sunday and closed that speech with a poem he wrote in honor of his dad, who was as prolific with his poetry as he was with his jokes and his deal-making.
“He was one of a kind,” says Dana Barron. “He had a lot of passion for everything he did. He loved people and he loved his work. He was a good listener and a good communicator and when you do both of those things well, you’re going to close a lot of deals and make a lot of people happy.”
