{"id":50467,"date":"2022-07-31T14:43:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T18:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=50467"},"modified":"2022-08-01T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T19:04:24","slug":"dr-charles-d-h-barton-grs82-sth72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/dr-charles-d-h-barton-grs82-sth72\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Charles D. H. Barton (GRS’82, STH’72)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This obituary was published by the\u00a0Andrews Mortuary and Crematory Market Street Chapel \u00a0<\/a>and can be found here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Charles D.H. Barton was born at home in Wellington, New South Wales, Australia, to Denis and Mary (n\u00e9e Wilson) Barton, who were graziers on a 6500-acre sheep station 200 miles northwest of Sydney.\u00a0 He was the third of four children.\u00a0 Charles left the rural life behind at the age of 14 and entered the Royal Australian Naval College, first entering as a young student, then officially joining the Australian Navy serving at sea during the Korean War, and eventually leaving as an officer (qualifying as a \u201cSurveyor 1st Class\u201d).\u00a0 Following his military career, at the age of 27 he entered seminary training at Moore College in Sydney receiving his graduate degree in theological studies and officially began ministry at Holy Trinity Church in Adelaide, Australia, in 1964. He remained there for four years until he felt led to seek further training in the U.S. in the area of Pastoral Counseling.<\/p>\n

By this point he was married to Margaret (n\u00e9e Buchan) and they had two sons.\u00a0 The four of them left the shores of their homeland in January, 1968, relocating to the Boston area, entering a graduate program in the Psychology of Religion and Pastoral Care.\u00a0 He was awarded a Master\u2019s degree followed by further studies which eventually led to completion of a PhD from Boston University Graduate School.\u00a0 During this lengthy season of academic pursuits he served local Episcopal churches in Arlington, MA, and Groveland, MA.\u00a0 It was in Groveland that the majority of his pastoral career would take place.\u00a0 Two more sons joined the family on American soil and it was there they raised their family.\u00a0 Reverend Barton remained the rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Groveland until 2002 when he retired from that position and he and Margaret relocated to Wilmington, NC. Though officially retired, Charles quickly found opportunities locally to serve both in churches in various staff positions as well as community efforts such as a children\u2019s home, day of prayer, and pro-life advocacy, often alongside other clergy with whom he enjoyed many congenial friendships over the years.<\/p>\n

He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Margaret, a sister Judith Heath, a brother John Barton, (preceded in death by a brother Michael); his four sons, Andrew (Sandy) of Wilmington, NC, John (Marlene) of Cincinnati, OH, Peter (Laura) of Boise, ID,\u00a0 and Adam (Amanda) of McBain, MI; 19 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

A funeral service will be held on Sunday, July 10, 2022 at Myrtle Grove Presbyterian Church at 4pm.\u00a0 (Located at 800 Piner Road, Wilmington, NC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This obituary was published by the\u00a0Andrews Mortuary and Crematory Market Street Chapel \u00a0and can be found here. Charles D.H. Barton was born at home in Wellington, New South Wales, Australia, to Denis and Mary (n\u00e9e Wilson) Barton, who were graziers on a 6500-acre sheep station 200 miles northwest of Sydney.\u00a0 He was the third of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13877,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[206],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50468,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50467\/revisions\/50468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}