Santa Clara County CA Archives Obituaries.....Acton, John Alan August 2, 1987
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The Dispatch, Gilroy, August 4, 1987 & San Jose Mercury News August 7, 1987
The Dispatch August 4, 1987

J. Alan Acton

   Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Johnson Funeral Home for
John Alan Acton who died Sunday.  He was 53.
   A Morgan Hill native, he was a third-generation farmer and the son of the
late John Edward Acton.  John Acton came to Morgan Hill from Minnesota in 1910.
 His grandparents had moved to Morgan Hill in 1902.
   In 1911, John Acton built a home at 170 Warren Avenue, which was moved to its
present location on Main Avenue in 1983.  It was donated to the city by Chris
Williams who bought the house with a partner in 1967 and assumed full ownership
in 1969.  It now serves as a museum run by the Morgan Hill Historical Society.
   John Allen is survived by his wife, Virginia L. Acton of Morgan Hill; his
mother Margaret Acton of Gilroy; a brother Edward M. Acton of Houston, Texas;
and several aunts, uncles and cousins.
   He will be buried after the services at Mount Hope Cemetery in Morgan Hill.

San Jose Mer5cury News, Friday August 7, 1987

J. A. Acton, Orchardist of Morgan Hill

   Funeral services were held Wednesday for John Alan Acton, 53, a retired
Morgan Hill Orchardist, who died Sunday of a brain hemorrhage at a San Jose
Hospital.
   His family said he had been in good health until quite recently.
   Mr. Acton, a native of Morgan Hill, was the son and grandson of south Santa
Clara Valley farmers.
   His grandfather, John Acton, immigrated to the US from England, settling in
Morgan Hill in 1910 to farm and become an orchardist specializing in raising
prunes.
   The original Acton farmhouse in Morgan Hill, where John Alan lived for a
time, is now a museum.
   John Alan’s father, J. Edward Acton, served on the Morgan Hill City Council
from 1944-1948.
   John Acton farmed until 1973 when he and his wife, Virginia Pravettoni Acton,
retired two Weaverville in northern California to run a motel they had bought.
   Parental ill health forced the couple to return to Morgan Hill to live four
years ago.  Mr. Acton’s father, John Edward, died in December.
   Before moving to Weaverville, Mr. Acton had been active in Ducks Unlimited,
the Morgan Hill Ducks Club and the Elks Lodge.
   Besides his wife, survivors include his mother, Margaret Acton of Morgan
Hill, and a brother, Dr. Edward M. Acton of Texas.  Mr. Acton is buried in Mount
Hope Cemetery.


Additional Comments:
John Alan Acton was the son of John Edward Acton and Margaret McIntosh, grandson
of John & Charlotte Kimbel Acton and John Donald & Margaret Chisholm McIntosh
(of Ontario, Canada), and great-grandson of George and Mary Kimble.  All but
John Donald & Margaret Chisholm McIntosh are buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.  

John and Virginia had no children.

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