Son credits former editor for Bartos’ late-life writing career

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A quarter of a century ago today, Bob Bartos was undoubtedly crafting some outlandish but true story for the readers of Reporter & Farmer. Just two years before, there was no indication that my dad would suddenly, in his late 70s, become a bona fide newspaper columnist.

I blame LeAnn Suhr.

Bob Bartos was intelligent, but more in a small-town street-smart kind of way than by any academic definiti…