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Irene Louise Hejl Barton
18 Apr 1922 – 22 Feb 2014
| Birth | 18 Apr 1922 |
| Death | 22 Feb 2014 |
| Cemetery | Saint Marys Catholic Cemetery West , McLennan County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Theresa Cernosek on 19 Feb 2022 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44516532 |
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Irene Barton, 91, died on February 22, 2014, of natural causes at Round Rock St. David's hospital in Round Rock, Texas, in the presence of her children. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m., Friday, February 28, at St. Louis Catholic Church in Waco. Irene Louise was born in Tokio, Texas, to the late John J. and Sallie Hejl. She attended school in Ross, Texas, and graduated from West High School. In the early 1940s, she met Rudolph Paul Barton and they were married in 1943. In 1949, Irene and Rudy moved to a home in Waco where they lived most of their lives and where they raised their five children. Irene was a devout Catholic and a member of St Louis Catholic Church in Waco. She prayed the rosary and read from her prayer book every night before bedtime. As a young mother, she insisted that her children would be raised in the Catholic faith and she and Rudy made major sacrifices for that to be accomplished. Irene spent many years working in the grocery business, often working along side of her husband, until she retired in 1982. She was an excellent seamstress and she spent much time in her early retirement years sewing and doing craftwork. She was an avid gardener and a wonderful cook. In the summer of 2013, Irene moved to Round Rock, Texas, in order to be closer to her children and she resided at Provident Crossing, an independent-living retirement community. Irene was preceded in death by her husband, Rudy, in 1996; and a son, James, in July of 2013. She is survived by her daughters, Clare Guidry and husband, Dennis, of Houston, and Dorothy Bettis and husband, Berkley, of Austin; sons, Don Barton and wife, Debra, of Round Rock, and Paul Barton, also of Round Rock; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; sister, Mary Bezdek, of Ross, Texas; many other relatives and numerous friends. Waco Tribune-Herald: 2/23/2014...U14
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