Gordon “Buzzy” Barton, lifelong Lynner, son of a civil rights icon and arguably one of the most respected officials ever in the City, died late Wednesday night at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston after a brief illness. He was a month shy of his 71st birthday.
A retired Lynn firefighter, Barton served as a city councilor at large since 2012. He had pulled nomination papers to run for a seventh term this fall.
Barton worked as a Lynn firefighter from 1976-2004 and served as president of Local 739 of the International Association of Fire Fighters. He was the son of the late Virginia Barton, a tireless crusader for civil rights who was president of the North Shore branch of the NAACP.
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