THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, July 5, 1995 TAG: 9507050009
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: COLUMBIA, S.C. LENGTH: Short : 42 lines
Services for the Rev. Henry Causey Barton Jr., 68, retired priest of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, of Columbia, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church. Interment will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, at a later date.
Memorials may be made to St. Martin's-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church Foundation. Dunbar Funeral Home, Gervais Street Chapel, Columbia, S.C., is in charge.
The Rev. Barton died Tuesday, July 4, 1995. He was born in Suffolk, son of the late Henry Causey Barton and the late Adelaide Norfleet Barton.
He was educated in Suffolk public schools prior to serving in the U.S. Army, 1944-1946. He graduated from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., in 1950 with a BA and from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1953 with a Master's in Divinity. He served as Deacon and then Rector of Eastern Shore Chapel Episcopal Church, Virginia Beach, 1953-1960; Rector of All Saints Episcopal Church, Birmingham, Ala. 1960-1968; St. Martin's-in-the-Fields Church, Columbia, S.C., 1968-1981; and Episcopal Church of the Advent, Spartanburg, S.C., 1981-1990. He served the wider church as deputy to General Convention, Membership on Diocesan Committees and Commissions, including Bishop and Council, Trustee and Standing Committee. He continued to serve as a member of the Board of Examining Chaplains in the Diocese of Upper S.C. In the communiyy, he was chairman and board member of Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, board member for Piedmont American Red Cross, Mental Health Association and Habitat for Humanity.
Surviving are his wife, Ann Leighton Simmons Barton of Columbia; two daughters, Ann Meriwether Barton of Mount Pleasant, S.C. and Claudia Baron Coleman of Greenville, S.C.; a son, David Prentis Barton of Columbia; and four grandchildren.
KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY
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