
Friends described Edward “Carl” Barnhill as a superman often disguised in Clark Kent clothes. His wife of 28 years says “he was just a good man.”
Barnhill, a command sergeant major with the Army Reserve’s 431 Civil Affairs Battalion based in North Little Rock, Ark., and serving in Iraq, died in Baghdad on Friday. He was 50.
Barnhill of Shreveport leaves behind his wife, Paula, two sons, Jason, 24, and Marcus, 26, two grandchildren, his mother, two sisters and two brothers.
Army officials told Paula Barnhill her husband had a heart attack and could not be resuscitated, she said.
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