Iowa County

 
Jane Gilmore Blythe Barton

 

Jane Gilmore Blythe Barton was born Mar. 25, 1922 to Frederick Robert and Bertha Olivia Vonschradeer Blythe. She died May 25, 2007 and is buried in Fort Sheridan Cemetery, Highwood, IL

Lt. JG Barton served in World War II with the U.S. Navy WAVES working in Washington, D.C. helping to administer the Lend-Lease Support Program for U.S. Allies. The D.C. housing shortage caused her and two other WAVES to live on a donated yacht in the Potomac River

She was married to Robert Derek Barton. Lt. Col. Barton served in World War II with the U.S. Army in the Philippines. He was a POW from May 1942 until Aug. 1945.

Source: ancestry.com