A man who’s spent decades serving our city and is known as the longest serving Columbus Police officer retired this week.
Lt. Barth spent the last 56 years with the Columbus Police Department. He retired this week and meeting him Tuesday. He had a lot of memories to share.
He followed his father, Sergeant Carl Barth’s footsteps. His brother was also a police officer as he showed photos of the three of them.
He thought he would retire sooner.
“Yeah when I was young I was going to retire at 25 years but it never happened and I just kept going and going,” he said.
His favorite memories include meeting the president.
Lt. Barth will be 78 years old on Nov. 1. His plans for retirement?
“Make a few trips around the country maybe a Caribbean cruise,” he said.
