Obit of Zona Gale Barten Walton (w435) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 5 Sep 2002 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ==================================================================== Surnames: Walton, Barten, Arney, Jones, Rushbrook, Morris, Stahlman, Vloedman Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/5143 Zona Gale Barten Walton was born April 15, 1914, to William Fredrick and Rebecca Miranda Arney Barten of the Barten homestead southeast of Leedey, Oklahoma. She passed from this life Monday, May 16, 1994 at Presbyerian Hospital, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at the age of 80 years. She attended Pleasant Hill, Banner, Quartermaster and Leedey Schools. Zona Gale and Orval Walton were married on March 19, 1932, in Taloga, Oklahoma and lived 6 years on the Walton homestead southeast of Leedey, before returning to the Barten homestead in 1939, where they lived for the last 55 years. Zona Gale filled her life with gardening, sewing, cooking, and raising her 2 children, 4 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. She attended the Leedey Church of Christ, and was an active supporter of various church activities. Zona Gale was preceded in death by her father and mother, her sisters, Annetah Harms, Elma Graybill, and Georgia Jackson, her brothers, Dutch, Dick, and Doe Barten, her great grandson, aaron Jones, and her son-in-law, Harvey Rushbrook. She is survived by her husband, Orval Walton of Leedey; daughters and sons-in-law, Evelyn and Charles Jones of Woodward; daughter Evelyn Rushbrook of Edmond; 1 brother, Jim Barten of Leedey; 1 sister, Christene Morris of Edmond; grandchildren, Penny Stahlman of Fargo, Kenney Jones of Woodward, Connie Floedman of Clinton; Scott Rushbrook of Dallas, Texas; great grandchildren, Mandy and Jessice Vloedman of Clinton, Adam Jones of Woodward, and Stephanie and Talon Stahlman of Fargo, Oklahoma. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK