BARTON, Leah: Died 1983

BARTON, SMITH, MCDOWELL, HAHN, DARNELL

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Date: 11/30/2021 at 16:30:55

**Handwritten: 29 Sept '83 Leader Record

LEAH BARTON

Services for Mrs. Leah Barton, 82, Hillsboro, who died Monday, September 19, 1983, were held at the Baptist Church at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, September 22, with the Rev. Robert Wolf and the Rev. Edward Newman officiating. Burial was in the Hillsboro Cemetery. A memorial to the Hillsboro Library has been established at Beatty Funeral Home, Mt. Pleasant.

Mrs. Barton was born October 31, 1900 to John and Cora Smith McDowell, in Mt. Pleasant, where she married Thomas Earl McDowell on March 2, 1921; he died December 10, 1982.

Mrs. Barton was a member of the Baptist Church.

Surviving are two sons, Donald McDowell, Wever, and Gene McDowell, Hillsboro; daughter, Marilyn Hahn, Sigourney; brother Daryl McDowell, Fairfield; two sisters, Gladys Barton, Washington, D.C., and Hazel Darnell, Port Richey, Florida; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Source: "Scrapbook 1981 - 1985", Pg. 164,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA