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Show Ray Hunter Barton Funeral services were conducted con-ducted in Salt Lake City, May 13, for Ray Hunter Barton, 76, former Beaver resident, who died May 10 at his home in Salt Lake City of a heart ailment. Graveside services were held the same day, at Mountain View Cemetery, Beaver, under direction of Walter Kerksiek, bishop of the Beaver Third Ward. The invocation was offered by C. Edwin Paice, and a mixed quartet, Kent Morgan, Milo Baker, Esta Cox and Anona Swindlehurst, sang a vocal selection. se-lection. S. Taylor Farnsworth made appropriate remarks, and Dr, Ray H. Barton Jr. played a violin vio-lin selection. The grave was dedicated by President Joseph C. Smith of Milford. Pallbearers were Grant Bar- ton, grandson of the deceased; j Martell Easton and Angus East-I East-I on, nephews; Kent Morgan, a i cousin, and E. C. Barton and K. A. Barton, brothers. Mr. Barton was born Jan. 4, 1881, at Greenville, to John Henry and Eliza Jane Morgan Barton. He married Emma Jay Jones on Nov. 29, 1905. He was a former superintendent superinten-dent of the East Ward Sunday School, in Beaver. He attended the Beaver City school, and was graduated from Murdock Academy. Enrolling at the University of Utah, he graduated from that institution with the Normal Class of 1904. He was a member of the Glee Club and Quartet at the U of U, and held one of the first life certificates for public school teaching in Beaver County. Coun-ty. He was among the early pioneers pio-neers in developing possibilities of underground water irrigation irriga-tion in the Milford Valley. Before moving to Salt Lake in 1920, Mr. Barton was well known in Beaver County for his music and dramatic work. He was also proficient in baseball and other athletics. Mr. Barton was well known in Utah mining circles, and was president of the Majestic Oil & Mining Co., with operations in the Moscow area of Western Beaver County. He was a county superintendent superinten-dent of schools for Beaver County, Coun-ty, and was formerly cashier of the First- National Bank of Beaver. Surviving are his widow, two sons: Blayney J. Barton, Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, Pa., and Dr. Ray H. Barton, Salt Lake; a daughter, Mrs. Helen B. Parker, Provo; 11 grandchildren; four brothers and two sisters: Mrs. W. P. Lus-si, Lus-si, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. William Easton and E. C. Barton, Beaver; Beav-er; J. P. Barton, Phoenix, Ariz.; Chesley D. Barton, Salt Lake, and K. A. Barton, Los Angeles. |