[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 138 (Tuesday, September 13, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1256]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         IN HONOR OF JO BARTON

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                             HON. SAM FARR

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 13, 2016

  Mr. FARR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of Jo Clough 
Barton. Jo died peacefully, surrounded by her family, in her home in 
Annapolis, Maryland on August 3, 2016. She was 85 years old.
   Born Martha Jo Clough on March 19, 1931 to Sara Jo and Arthur Clough 
in Oklahoma City, she attended Edgemere Elementary School before her 
family moved to Ardmore, OK in 1941. She graduated from Ardmore High 
School in 1949 and then attended the University of Oklahoma where she 
met and married her husband Gerald (Jerry) Barton. She attended and 
graduated second in her class from the University of Oklahoma College 
of Law in 1955 and was admitted to the prestigious honor society, the 
Order of Coif. She was admitted to the Oklahoma Bar Association in 
1955.
   Jo practiced law in Oklahoma from 1958 to 1968 for the firm 
Mosteller, Andrews, Mosberg (now Andrews, Davis) and later opened an 
independent book store in the Avondale Shopping Center. She was a 
volunteer at Beta Theta Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity at OU, 
mentoring many young women. She also volunteered in many of her 
children's activities and at their school. An ardent Democrat, she 
championed liberal causes and raised money for progressive candidates 
throughout her life.
   She and Jerry later moved to Big Sur, CA where she served as 
president of the Carmel Bach Festival, on the board of Hospice of the 
Monterey Peninsula and opened a children's clothing store called 
Nana's. She moved to Annapolis, MD in 2015 to be close to her children.
   She is survived by her children, Joann Vaughan, Doug Barton and 
Martha Doherty, all of Annapolis MD; her grandchildren; Barton Vaughan, 
Elizabeth Vaughan, Christopher Austin, Robert Vaughan, Sam Barton, 
Alison Doherty, Caroline Vaughan Kreutzer, Sarah Doherty, Kylee Barton 
and Harrison Barton; and two great granddaughters; Georgina Vaughan and 
Caroline Vaughan.
   We honor and remember Jo's memory by opening a wonderful bottle of 
wine and cooking a favorite meal. ``Grieve not, nor speak of me with 
tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you . . . loved you 
so--'twas Heaven here with you.' ''--Isla Paschal Richardon

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