Santa Clara County CA Archives Obituaries.....Acton, John  October 5, 1955
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Morgan Hill Times & San Martin News, Front Page, October 7, 1955
Funeral Services Held Today for John Acton

Funeral services will be conducted this afternoon, Friday, October 7, for John
Acton, 88 year old rancher who died after a long illness at his home on Warren
Avenue October 5.  Services will be conducted at the Methodist church at 2:30
o’clock with the Rev. E. Walter Squires, minister, officiating.  Music will be
by Mrs. John Jones and Mrs. Frank Thompson.  Interment will be at Mount Hope
Cemetery under the direction of Johnson Funeral Home.

Acton was born January 28, 1867 in England.  He came to the United States when
he was 19 years old.  Coming to Morgan Hill in 1910, he engaged in ranching and
has been a rancher here ever since.

While living in Lynd, Minnesota, he was a constable.  Acton has served on the
board of the Methodist Church, was a former City Councilman of Morgan Hill and a
stockholder and director of the Farmers Union before it was sold to Lee
Buchheister.

Acton’s father, grandfather, and brother were Episcopal [Anglican] rectors in
England.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Charlotte L. Acton; a son J. Edward Acton of
Morgan Hill, a daughter Halcyon Glidewell of Berkeley; and two grandsons Edward
McIntosh Acton, studying for his PhD in Boston, and John Alan Acton of Morgan
Hill.


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