Important Announcement Regarding Deaths in King County
Families and their Funeral Service Providers, including Barton Family Funeral Service, are experiencing significantly delays in obtaining death certificates from King County while King County implements an electronic system called EDRS. (You may read about it HERE)
We have been using the EDRS system for several years for deaths occurring in other counties such as Snohomish County. We know the system well and are trying to help physicians and hospitals as they make the transition. Because King is such a large county, the transition is taking longer than we have experienced in the past, and unfortunately we are all experiencing considerable delays in obtaining death certificates.
County and State officials are very cooperative and are working diligently to facilitate the change. We ask for your patience and assure you that we are doing everything possible to meet your expectations.
I am so sorry about Roy’s passing. He was a great friend and mentor in pharmacy school. Very smart & Intelligent, except when he played his drums at the bars in wilcox, az. He told me once that the bands would have to play behind a cage of sorts. when I asked him why he told me that if the [drunken] patrons did’nt like what you were playing, they would throw their [empty] beer bottles at you!!. He would come over to my apartment and I would share a steak dinner + a beverage of choice. We would watch an old “Quincy ME” on tv and try to solve the case, if a person met their demise by drug/chemical. I guessed the correct answer about 20-30% of the time…guess who would answer the rest. Without Roy I wouldn’t have met my soon to be wife at JC Lincoln hospital as he got me a job there as he was moving on to Good Sam hospital. A great friend. I look forward to meeting with him again in the hereafter…Alan.