Marcus Thurman Barrett Jr. took over a family-owned business started by his father and transformed it from San Antonio’s largest homebuilder in the 1950s to a major supplier of construction materials.
In 1984, a story on a Barrett Industries acquisition of a concrete plant operator projected sales would soon top $50 million annually — more than $155 million in today’s inflation-adjusted dollars.
Barrett Jr. succumbed to a heart attack in 1988. He was 67…