BARTON, Wayne LeRoy: Died 1987

BARTON, BROWN, WOODALL, JOHNSON, SMITH

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Date: 9/11/2023 at 17:18:32

Hawkeye
2 Apr 1987

Wayne LeRoy Barton

Wayne LeRoy Barton, 43, Route 2, Danville, died at 4:53 a.m. Thursday at Burlington Medical Center, after an extended illness.

Born Feb. 14, 1944, at Salem, he was the son of Walter and Fern Brown Barton. He married Mary Woodall on Feb. 28, 1964, at Salem.

He served with the U.S. Army in Vietnam. He was a truckdriver for Churchill Truck Lines and Teamsters Local 218. He was a member of the Long Creek United Methodist Church.

Before his death, Barton became the object of local concern about the relationship between cancer and Agent Orange. Barton's physician was disturbed by the aggressive nature of his illness and attributed it to Barton's exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.

He is survived by his wife, Mary; one son, Clifford Wayne Barton, and one daughter, Catherine Renee Barton, both of home; his parents, Salem; three brothers, Kenneth Barton, Kankakee, Ill., Robert Barton, Salem, Gary Barton, Mount Union; two sisters, Beverly Johnson, Hillsboro, and Linda Smith, Burlington.

Friends may call at the Elliott Chapel in New London from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday.

Services for Mr. Barton will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Elliott Chapel, New London, Rev. Linnford Edwards officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Grove Cemetery, southeast of New London.

Memorials for his children's education and the A.J. Cancer Research on Agent Orange have been established.

Source: "Scrapbook 1986 - 1988", Pg. 385,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA