Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Dalton, John Frederick January 26, 1956
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Virginian-Pilot  January 27, 1956
JOHN F. DALTON, NORFOLK SOUTHERN EXECUTIVE, DIES

John Frederick Dalton, of 941 Baldwin Avenue, director of industrial and 
agricultural development for the Norfolk Southern Railway Company, died 
unexpectedly yesterday at 6:20 p.m. in a Norfolk hospital.

A lifelong resident of Norfolk, he was the husband of Mrs. Frances Weiter Dalton.  
His late parents were Captain Thomas Francis and Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Dunn Dalton.

Dalton had been with the Norfolk Southern for 46 years and was vice president of 
the traffic department from 1942 until 1948, when he took the directorship of 
industrial and agricultural development for the railway.  Prior to 1910, he worked 
a short while for both the Southern Railway and the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in 
Norfolk.  He attended Norfolk College.

Besides his wife, surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Dalton Browne and Mrs. 
Robert Randolph, both of Norfolk, and one brother, Thomas A. Dalton, of Richmond; 
three nephews, J. J. Browne Jr. and Robert Randolph Jr., both of Norfolk, and 
Dalton Treadwell, of Elkton, Md.; and one niece, Mrs. Martin Dwyer, of Elkton.

The body will be taken from the H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments to Sacred Heart 
Catholic Church, of which he was a member, for services tomorrow at 11 a.m.  
Rosary services will be held today at 8:30 p.m. at the funeral apartments.  Burial 
will be in St. Mary's Cemetery.

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