Obit of Barton, Tollie (b635) - Jefferson County, Oklahoma Transcribed by: Gene Phillips 6 May 2004 Return to Jefferson County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/jefferson/jefferson.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Bakersfield Californian Tollie Barton Nov. 1915 Feb. 7, 2002 Services: Tues., Feb. 12, 1:00 p.m. Tollie Barton was born in Addington, OK on 11/19/15 and died on 2/7/02, in Bakersfield after a long struggle with lung cancer. Memorial services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at Liberty Christian Center on 8801 South H St./McKee Rd, phone 397-4111. Officiating will be Co-Pastor Dale Cornell. Friends are invited to join the family following the service in the reception hall of the church. Tollies mother and father, Andrew Barton and Ella Pearce Barton were born in Alabama. They moved to Addington, Oklahoma where they started their family: Tollie and his brothers and sisters, Ivy, Vertis, J.B., David, Viola, Mary, Nellie and Sarah. After the death of his mother, when Tollie was 1-1/2 years old, Tollies father married Edna Brant, and his brothers Andrew, Dutch, Speck and Hershal were born. After being battered by the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma, Tollie headed for California where he worked as a farm laborer in the Porterville, Bakersfield, Antioch, Brentwood and Imperial Valley areas. He met Lois Wood in Brentwood, California picking peas. They married May 7, 1939 in Reno, Nevada and moved to Marysville, CA. They worked the crops and fields while raising crops of their own, Lester, Tom, Linda, Terry, Gerry, Sharon, Sheila, John and Michael. Tollie moved his family to Bakersfield in 1944 where he worked as a labor contractor in the peas and cotton. He was one of the first licensed labor contractors in Kern County, venturing into sugar beet hauling, misc. farm labor and a small gaming tent in the Lakeview Labor Camp. In 1950 he started his farming career, renting ground on Bear Mountain Boulevard from the Fry family. He then purchased the Oscar Banks farm across from Watermans Labor Camp on Copus Road. He added additional leases from Chevron and Producers Cotton Oil and then purchased the Onlie Sanders Farms and leases which consisted of approximately two thousand acres of row crop land. His sons followed in their Dads footsteps. Tollie ginned cotton with Producers, Anderson- Clayton and South Valley Coop until he retired in 1998. He was an avid sportsman, hunting and fishing throughout the western states, and also enjoyed an occasional respite in Las Vegas and Laughlin. He was known on a first name basis at the Pioneer Hotel and Casino in Laughlin. He was lucky in life and lucky in love, with a loving family, a successful farming venture and many devoted friends. Tollie will be missed by his children, Lester Barton, Tom Barton, Jim and Linda Wallace, Terry and Angie Barton, Gerry and Kay Barton, Sheila Barton, John and Brenda Barton, Michael and Cecelia Barton, 24 grandchildren, and 41 great grandchildren, and his special friends, Lil Owens, Velma Boman and Guy Schwarz. He was preceded in death by his loving wife, Lois, his loving daughter, Sharon Seal, his grandson, Chris Barton, his parents, brothers and sisters. Graveside services will be private. Donations may be made to the American Cancer Society in lieu of flowers. Visitation will begin on Sunday at 1 p.m. til 9 p.m. and Monday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Greenlawn Southwest Mortuary, 2739 Panama Lane, Bakersfield, phone 834-8820. Greenlawn Southwest Mortuary Funeral Directors -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Jefferson County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/jefferson/jefferson.htm