This transport ace has blazed a trail for his children, Patrick and Christine, his grandchildren, and his employees too. Jean-Pierre Barbero, former manager of the refrigerated transport company Barbero – located in the industrial area of Saint-Laurent-du-Var – has died.
Tributes for this local figure have multiplied. Him, this kid who was born in 1935 in La Bollène-Vésubie “did not have a very easy childhood in the middle of the war”, comments Patrick, his son. His “extremely protective daddy” left his valley in the 1950s. Direction: the road from Grenoble to Nice. It is here that Jean, the father of Jean-Pierre, created his small family business.
“A real head of the family … Our captain”
“From the age of 12, my father was working. He was involved in the fruit and vegetable trade, while my grandfather transported the goods.” When, in 1969, Jean tragically loses his life in a road accident, the son, Jean-Pierre, takes up the torch. He decides to create the company’s headquarters in the heart of the industrial zone in Saint-Laurent-du-Var. It was in 1974.
Small business is growing. “Initially, there were only a few employees. Today, we are one hundred and eighty, testifies Patrick, current manager of the family business. My father retired about 20 years ago, although he has always kept an eye on the business. And, we, we try, every day, to be at its height. “
Jean-Pierre Barbero was a workaholic. A fan. A builder.
“With us, the life of the company and the family life are extremely linked. The moments of joy, of sorrow, were spent at work. Children, during the school holidays, we worked – with my sister, my cousin – in its sides. On Sundays, we went fishing, to the beach and in winter, we went up to Auron to ski “.
As a family, Jean-Pierre Barbero was a tribal chief. “A real head of the family … Our captain”, confides his son.
At work : “a real engine”. His most beautiful transmission? “Love for everything we can do. A taste for a job well done and above all always doing the best possible”, traces Patrick.
In all transparency, he wishes to specify: “Our father did not die of Covid-19. He had kidney problems. For some time, he was very weak”. Especially since the death of his wife, Danièle. “He was never really the same man again …” It was in July 2013. There was a crowd in Saint-Joseph church in Saint-Laurent-du-Var, to say goodbye to him. The health context made that Jean-Pierre Barbero, could not have the same funeral. They took place this Wednesday, in the strictest family privacy.
To his family, his relatives, his employees, Nice morning offers its sincere condolences.
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