Monticello - Joseph Earl Acton, 75, formerly of Port Jervis, died Tuesday in Hamilton Avenue Hospital, Monticello.
He was born Jan. 25, 1897 in Hawley, Pa., to Matthew and Eugenia Hazen Acton. He married the former Ida Smith, and was a retired interior decorator.
He was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church of New Haven, Conn.
He is survived by his wife; four sons, Robert and Maurice, both of Mountaindale; Joseph of Glen Wild, and Arnold of Virginia; three daughters, Mrs. Claire King of Port Jervis, Mrs. Norma Schaefer and Mrs. Dorothy Tibbets, both of Connecticut; a sister, Mrs. Alice Courright of the State of Florida; 23 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
The Rev. Austin Butler will officiate at services at the Knight Funeral Home, 154 E. Main St., Port Jervis.
--The Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY), Wednesday, March 15, 1972, page 80
He was born Jan. 25, 1897 in Hawley, Pa., to Matthew and Eugenia Hazen Acton. He married the former Ida Smith, and was a retired interior decorator.
He was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church of New Haven, Conn.
He is survived by his wife; four sons, Robert and Maurice, both of Mountaindale; Joseph of Glen Wild, and Arnold of Virginia; three daughters, Mrs. Claire King of Port Jervis, Mrs. Norma Schaefer and Mrs. Dorothy Tibbets, both of Connecticut; a sister, Mrs. Alice Courright of the State of Florida; 23 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
The Rev. Austin Butler will officiate at services at the Knight Funeral Home, 154 E. Main St., Port Jervis.
--The Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY), Wednesday, March 15, 1972, page 80
Monticello - Joseph Earl Acton, 75, formerly of Port Jervis, died Tuesday in Hamilton Avenue Hospital, Monticello.
He was born Jan. 25, 1897 in Hawley, Pa., to Matthew and Eugenia Hazen Acton. He married the former Ida Smith, and was a retired interior decorator.
He was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church of New Haven, Conn.
He is survived by his wife; four sons, Robert and Maurice, both of Mountaindale; Joseph of Glen Wild, and Arnold of Virginia; three daughters, Mrs. Claire King of Port Jervis, Mrs. Norma Schaefer and Mrs. Dorothy Tibbets, both of Connecticut; a sister, Mrs. Alice Courright of the State of Florida; 23 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
The Rev. Austin Butler will officiate at services at the Knight Funeral Home, 154 E. Main St., Port Jervis.
--The Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY), Wednesday, March 15, 1972, page 80
He was born Jan. 25, 1897 in Hawley, Pa., to Matthew and Eugenia Hazen Acton. He married the former Ida Smith, and was a retired interior decorator.
He was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church of New Haven, Conn.
He is survived by his wife; four sons, Robert and Maurice, both of Mountaindale; Joseph of Glen Wild, and Arnold of Virginia; three daughters, Mrs. Claire King of Port Jervis, Mrs. Norma Schaefer and Mrs. Dorothy Tibbets, both of Connecticut; a sister, Mrs. Alice Courright of the State of Florida; 23 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
The Rev. Austin Butler will officiate at services at the Knight Funeral Home, 154 E. Main St., Port Jervis.
--The Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY), Wednesday, March 15, 1972, page 80
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