Obituary of Herbert Acton, Jr., 2003, Boyle Co. & NC Submitted by: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net] ************************************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ >From the Danville Advocate Messenger, 4 May 2003 Herbert R. Acton, Jr., 93, of Charleston Green, died Friday in his home. Born Jan. 18, 1910, in Raleigh, N.C., he was the son of the late Herbert Rudisill and Emma Lena Knott Acton. He was the widow of Nevelyn Parks Acton and Beulah Best Harmon Acton. He was a member and deacon emeritus of Lexington Avenue Baptist Church, where he served as finance chairman. He was the first graduate of Hugh Morson High School in Raleigh, N.C. in 1926 and graduated from North Carolina State College in 1930 with a degree in electrical engineering. He was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, an engineering honors fraternity. >From age 9 to 18 he was a page in the North Carolina state Senate chamber. He was an engineer at Westinghouse and then joined his family tobacco business, Knott Tobacco Warehouses of North Carolina. He was one of the owners of the People's Tobacco Warehouse in Danville in the late 1930s and started Acton Tax Service in 1940. He has been a member of the Danville Rotary Club since 1940, serving as past president and was honored as a Paul Harris Fellow. He was one of the developers of Green Acres and Weisiger Woods in the 1940s and 1950s, served on the board of the Danville Chamber of Commerce and was a trustee of Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center. Survivors include three daughters, Martha Ann Moore of Chapel Hill, N.C., Mary Alice Acton Ingram of Lexington and Nevelyn Noel Acton of Danville; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Services will be 11 a.m. Monday at Lexington Avenue Baptist Church by the Revs. Tommy Valentine and Robert G. Baker. Burial will be in Bellevue Cemetery. Visitation will be 3-6 p.m. today at Stith Funeral Home. Memorials may go to Heritage Hospice, 337 W. Broadway, Danville and A Closer Walk, Lexington Avenue Baptist Church, 339 W. Lexington Ave., Danville. ______________________________