Joseph Barksdale
Joseph D. Barksdale, 79, went from cotton fields to NASA, Baltimore Sun
“Joseph D. Barksdale, 79, died March 15 at his home in Laurel. Joseph Decatur Barksdale, who went from the cotton fields of Mississippi where his family was sharecropping to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, where he oversaw the information technology department, died March 15 at his home in Laurel from complications from a fall. He was 79.”
A dedicated public servant and a plain good guy. We’ll miss him.