Savanorio Juozo Bariso gyvenimo kelias

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Juozas Barisas; Lietuvos Nepriklausomybės kovos; Savanoris; Juozas Barisas; Lithuanian Independence Struggle; Volunteer.

ENJuozas Barisas was born on the 22lh December, 1903 in Pazukai village, Panevėžys region in the family of the farmers Jurgis Barisas and Barbora Rutkauskaitė-Barisienė. He studied at Panevėžys Gymnasium. Due to his patriotism Juozas Barisas took up the weapon when he was sixteen years old pupil and he fought all along the front lines until the enemy was pushed away behind the Daugava river. In January, 1923 he took part in the liberation of Klaipėda from French. In 1926 J. Barisas graduated from Kaunas Technical School. In 1928 he married to Sofija Stalionytč, who was the graduatcr of Kaunas Teachers’ Seminary and they settled in Panevėžys. They built a house and founded there the Store of technical accessories. He worked as a lecturer and a deputy director at Panevėžys Craft School. He pursued the high education, so he studied extramural studies in Veimar (Germany) and acquired the specialty of an electrical engineer. He wrote and published the two-part textbook for electricians in 1935. In Panevėžys he and his wife Sofija had got four children: Danutė, Laima Sofija, Antanas and Ona. J. Barris was the active public figure: the member of the Riflemen Union since 1919, the member of Ateitininkai union since 1923, he also worked in Catholic organizations. As a result of these activities on the 12lh December, 1940 the Soviet government arrested him, convicted and exiled to Vorkuta labor camps. His house in Panevėžys was nationalized, his wife after cruel strokes of destiny died in 1941. The orphans were raised by the grandmother - Sofya’s mother Uršulė Stalionienė.Having survived the troubles of Siberia, J. Barisas returned to Lithuania in 1947 without having a legal residence in Panevėžys. He settled in Anykščiai, worked as an engineer in the construction of a power station built on the Anykšta river. In 1948 he married the teacher Stasė Morkūnaitė. After three weeks Stasė Morkūnaitė together with her parents was deported to Siberia and returned to Lithuania and to her husband J. Barisas after seven years of misery. J. Barisas at that period lived in Kaunas and worked as an engineer at the Design Institute “Energoset”. In Kaunas they both raised three children: Ramunė, Jonas and Asta. J. Barris belonged to the Association of Ethnographers, he secretly led the Eucharistic friends group and he continued the whole life-long tradition of organizing cultural events and musical traditions. Juozas Barisas died on the 11th December, 1987, he was buried in Kaunas, in Karmėlava cemetery. [From the publication]