Doris was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints when she turned eight years old. This event took place on the 30th of December 1909. She was baptized by her father. Her church was important to her and played a large part in her life. In her words she recalls:
“As long as I can remember I have been in close contact with the church and the missionaries. One picture I remember quite well because it occurred almost every week was the missionaries bringing to mother some of the funniest shaped parcels, which always turned out to be mending. We used to have some real jolly evenings with them. These happy times were really the planting ground of some real good seeds of the word of God…since that time (after the WWI ended) I have scarcely missed a meeting. Each time I attend Sunday school I come home with a little more truth with which to feed the tree which was planted in my childhood.”
Another incident Doris remembered from her youth was going to the Mayor’s Annual Ball. This was a very fancy, invitation only affair, that the Barton family was invited to. Each group that entered would be announced. Doris who was about 13, her sister Ida, who was about 10, and the younger sister Dorothy, who was about 7, practiced all week curtsying for their introduction. When the night arrived, and the announcement made all went well for Ida and Doris, unfortunately little Dorothy tripped over her feet and fell to the great embarrassment of her older sisters. Doris picked her up and told her she was a “clumsy thing.”
The Barton children were very close to each other and had a great deal of fun together. Doris recalled her mother dressing up as Father Christmas, and the laughter that created and the fun the family had at holidays, thanks to mother.
