Dimitri M. Barton ’43

Dimitri died Nov. 11, 2022, at the San Francisco retirement home he shared with his wife, Marianne. He was 100 years old.

Dimitri was born in Tiflis, Georgia, Russia, the son of Harold Barton (Harvard 1909), the manager of the Washington, D.C., office of the American Arbitration Association. His mother died when he was a child. Moving to the United States, Dimitri prepped at Lawrenceville before coming to Princeton and lived at his family’s home on Alexander Street while he majored in mechanical engineering.

Dimitri spent three years in the Merchant Marine during the World War II before going to Stanford Business School for his MBA. After seven years with a large retail organization, The Emporium, he was eager to branch out on his own. He started a real estate development and investment firm, Barton Development Corp., while working as a real estate broker with Grubb & Ellis.

In 1956, Dimitri married Marianne Patton and the two had three children in quick succession: Tamara in 1957, Maria in 1958, and Dimitri Patton in 1960.

He is survived by his three children and by Marianne, his wife of 66 years.