Roy Barton

A Memorial Service for Roy Barton will be held at 2PM Thursday July 26, 2012, at Kirby & Family Funeral Home in Bull Shoals, Arkansas. Military Honors will be by Veterans of Foreign Wars Hoevel-Barnett Post #1341 and Alley-White American Legion Post #52. Roy passed away suddenly at Baxter Regional Medical Center July 21, 2012. He was 90 years old. Roy was born April 25, 1922, at Milan, IN to Jesse and Agusta Reinhardt Barton. He married Beverly Joy Zurek on November 15, 1975. Roy was a depression era baby and grew up helping on the family farm while working in a furniture factory at night. He joined the Navy after some peer pressure from friends and ended up the only one to pass the physical exam. He trained at Great Lakes Naval Station and was sent for machinist training at N. Dakota State College. He was stationed at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba before being assigned to the USS Adair and traveling through the Panama Canal to cross the Pacific. Roy said he was on a ?lucky? ship missing a number of close calls and surviving a direct hit from a kamikaze plane. He mustered out of the service in 1946 and went to refrigeration school. He owned his own refrigeration business and then opened a sporting goods store with his brother, Bill, before retiring to Edgewood Bay in Lakeview, AR. Roy quickly became active in the local Hoevel-Barnett Post #1341 VFW, the Retired Fisherman?s Club and the Edgewood Bay Homeowner?s Association and the Lakeview Community Club. He was never one to say no or to complain and if you attended a Fish Boil or Fish Fry in Bull Shoals or Lakeview he was probably cooking. Roy is survived by two daughters, Terri Borgman of Cobden, IL and Cyndi Bromir of Carbondale, IL; one son, David Zurek of Wonderlake, IL; two brothers, Estel Barton (Betty) of IN and Bill Barton of SD and five grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, twin brother Ray and brother, Robert. Caring arrangements are by Kirby & Family Funeral & Cremation Services.