David O Barton, 71, former Pottawatomie county sheriff and longtime peace officer, died about 6:30 pm Monday of a heart attack. He was working east of Tecumseh when stricken, and died about an hour later.
Barton has been a resident of the county for 50 years. He lived on a farm a mile north of Gaddy until 1919, when he moved to Shawnee.
For the next 24 years he was a peace officer, serving as deputy under five sheriffs.
In 1941 and 1942 Barton was sheriff of Pottawaomie county. Until about a month ago, when he resigned, he had been serving as marshal at McLoud.
He was a member of the Baptist church.
Survivors are his wife, Eula of the home, 515 West Ford; two sons, David, Los Angeles, and Donald, Wichita, Kan.; six daughters, Mrs Gilbert Neddeau, Norman, Mrs R W Pflibsen, Long Beach, Calif.; Mrs Chubby Breedlove, Sacramento, Calif.; Mrs Eugene Howard, Findley Lake, N. M.; Mrs J M Mathews, Hays, Kan., and Mrs D G Corbin, Wolf Point, Mont.
Twelve grandchildren, a brother, C. T., 215 North McKinley; two half-brothers, John and Will Earls, both of Shawnee; a half-sister, Mrs Mary Partridge, Denver Colo., and his stepfather, Charles Earls, Shawnee.
Roesch Brothers will announce funeral arrangements which are pending the arrival of Barton's children.
David O Barton, 71, former Pottawatomie county sheriff and longtime peace officer, died about 6:30 pm Monday of a heart attack. He was working east of Tecumseh when stricken, and died about an hour later.
Barton has been a resident of the county for 50 years. He lived on a farm a mile north of Gaddy until 1919, when he moved to Shawnee.
For the next 24 years he was a peace officer, serving as deputy under five sheriffs.
In 1941 and 1942 Barton was sheriff of Pottawaomie county. Until about a month ago, when he resigned, he had been serving as marshal at McLoud.
He was a member of the Baptist church.
Survivors are his wife, Eula of the home, 515 West Ford; two sons, David, Los Angeles, and Donald, Wichita, Kan.; six daughters, Mrs Gilbert Neddeau, Norman, Mrs R W Pflibsen, Long Beach, Calif.; Mrs Chubby Breedlove, Sacramento, Calif.; Mrs Eugene Howard, Findley Lake, N. M.; Mrs J M Mathews, Hays, Kan., and Mrs D G Corbin, Wolf Point, Mont.
Twelve grandchildren, a brother, C. T., 215 North McKinley; two half-brothers, John and Will Earls, both of Shawnee; a half-sister, Mrs Mary Partridge, Denver Colo., and his stepfather, Charles Earls, Shawnee.
Roesch Brothers will announce funeral arrangements which are pending the arrival of Barton's children.
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