Barbara Burton
Insurance Agent, Congressman's Wife
Services for Barbara J. Logan Burton, 65,
Indianapolis, an insurance agent and the wife of U.S. Rep. Dan Burton, will be at 7:30 p.m. May 14 at East 91st Street Christian Church, of which she was a member.
Calling there will be from 5 p.m. Burial is private. She died May 10.
Mrs. Burton worked for the Dan Burton Insurance Agency for 30 years, often managing the business while
her husband was serving in the Indiana legislature. She
was a volunteer for the American Heart Association,
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and the
Indianapolis Humane Society.
She attended Campbell Business School in Cincinnati and later worked as a secretary for State Mutual Insurance Co. and a Cincinnati brokerage firm.
A native of Corbin, Ky., she stayed in Indianapolis
with the couple's three children when her husband was
elected to the U.S. House. She rarely campaigned with her husband, preferring to remain a private person instead of an activist spouse.
The congressman called his wife "the biggest, most wonderful supporter in my life."
"If there's various levels of heaven, she's got to be right up there at the top," Burton said Saturday. "She was a wonderful person. She was the best. The very best."
Burton said his wife tried to avoid the public eye, especially when her husband fell under media scrutiny. "She deserved a lot better husband than she had," Burton said.
Her friends and family remember Barbara Burton as
a patient mother, a soft-spoken wife and a generous friend.
Friend Phyllis Brown likened her to "the wife of noble character" described in the Book of Proverbs, which refers to a woman "clothed with strength and dignity."
"That is my good friend Barbara," Brown said.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Colon Cancer Alliance, 175 Ninth Ave., New York, NY 10011 or the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, P.O. Box 650309, Dallas, TX 75265-0309.
Besides her husband, she is survived by her daughters, Kelly Burton Smith and Danielle Lee Burton
Sarkine; son Danny Lee Burton II; cousins Sonja Knott and Norma Crawford; two grandchildren.
Wilson St. Pierre Funeral Service & Crematory, Greenwood Chapel, is handling arrangements.
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