Clarine Kirby Barton

September 13, 2021

Clarine Grant Kirby Barton went home to be with her Jesus, her husband, Charles Barton, her parents, Lina Salter and Grant Addison Kirby, her sister Zelma Gerhard, and her brothers, Royce and Calvin Kirby on September 13, 2021. During World War II, she was a crane operator in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard where she met her sweetie. After he enlisted in the Navy, they were sent to San Diego, and later he was deployed to Pearl Harbor. Clarine is survived by two children, Arlene Guenther and husband Wayne, Susan Sproat and husband John; five Grandchildren, Tom Smead and wife Lee, Sarah Gallagher and husband James, Erin Szilagyi and husband Eddie, Charles Guenther and wife Vanessa, Justin Grizzard and wife Anna; eight great- grandchildren, Savanna Albright, Caylin and Hadley Szilagyi, Bailie Gallagher, Andres Guenther, Jude, Penelope and Vivian Grizzard; two nephews, Rick and Eddie Gerhard and many other loving and devoted family members and friends. She was a long-time member of Alexander Baptist Church ever since its beginning in the old school building in Alexander Park in the late 1940s, she was their oldest member. The family would like to thank all the many caregivers who have helped take care of her over the past few years. A funeral service will be held at 1pm Tuesday, September 21, 2021, in Loving Funeral Home with Reverend Gene Primm and Reverend David DeVane officiating. The family will receive friends in the funeral home 30 minutes prior to the service. Interment will follow at Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens. *For the safety of all attendees, the Family has asked that everyone wear a mask during all services.* In lieu of flowers, the family would like to suggest, donations to The Union Mission or The Daily Bread.