Forest BARTON

BARTON, CARLSON, BEATY, SMITH, FISHER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/23/2010 at 11:30:37

June 23, 1900 -- May 20, 1959

Funeral services for Forest Barton, 58, of 604 Academy St., Owatonna, were held last Friday at 2 p. m. in Trinity Lutheran church with Rev. Olin Fjelstad, pastor, officiating. Burial was in St. John's American Lutheran cemetery. Mr. Barton died last Wednesday evening at City Hospital. Born June 23, 1900, in Woolstock, IA, he married Althea Carlson June 13, 1921 in Clarion, IA. He has made his home in Owatonna since 1934, operating a grocery store here and later his own light delivery business for many years. Survivors include his wife, one son, Keith, of Rochester, one daughter, Mrs. T. G. (Anita) Beaty of Owatonna, four grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Frank (Lettie) Smith of Waterloo, IA, and Mrs. Charles (Pearl) Fisher of Emmetsburg, IA, and one brother, Grover Barton of Spencer, IA. The Thompson Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.