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Show Services Held Tuesday For Mary Colton Dalton Funeral services for Mary Colton Col-ton Dalton, 83, were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock in Minersville Ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, under direction of Karl I. Truman, a member of the ward bishopric. Prelude and postlude organ music mu-sic was played by Clara White of Beaver and other musical numbers num-bers included a quartet selection, "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning," Burn-ing," by Lee Marshall, Harold Baker, Obra Myers, and Milton Al-brecht, Al-brecht, accompanied by Mrs. Lee Marshall; a vocal solo, "That Wonderful Won-derful Mother of Mine," by Vilda Smith, accompanied by Mrs. Carter; Car-ter; and a duet. "The End of a Perfect Per-fect Day," by Sylvia Davis and Vivian Vi-vian Marshall, accompanied by Mrs. Phyllis Truman. Principal speaker was C. A. Kirkham of Beaver, a close acquaintance ac-quaintance of Mrs. Dalton and her husband. Remarks were made by Bishop's Counselor Truman, and a tribute was read by Mrs. Emily Gil-lins. Gil-lins. Opening prayer for the services was offered by Earl J. Limb, preceded pre-ceded by prayer at the home by Walter Lunt of Cedar City. The benediction was given by William Melvin Eyre of Parowan, and the grave dedicatory prayer at Minersville Miners-ville cemetery by Howard Marshall. Mar-shall. Casket bearers were Billy Dal- 1 ton, Clark Dalton, Max Dalton, and Fred Dalton, grandsons of Mrs. Dalton; and Sherral Davis and Jim-mie Jim-mie Williams. Mary Colton Dalton was born June 27, 1876, at Minersville, a daughter of Alonzo and Nettie Lowry Colton. She received her early education in Minersville schools. She was married to T. Continued on Page Two HERE'S MORE ABOUT Mrs. Mary Dalton Continued Irom Page One Walter Dalton at Minersville and they resided there all their lives. Mr. Dalton preceded her in death in November, 1951. Their children were: George Dalton, who resides in Long Beach, Calif.; Walter Clyde Dalton, Hollywood, Calif.; Ambrose Dalton, Beaver; and Harold Dalton, Dal-ton, Kemmerer, Wyo. Also surviving sur-viving her are a sister, Mrs. A. J. Lewis, Compton, Calif., nine grandchildren, grand-children, and 17 great-grand-children. Much sadness came to Mrs. Dalton Dal-ton during her lifetime. One daughter, Allene, died in early married life, leaving a daughter, Viola Lunt, who made her home with her grandparents until she was nine years old. Mrs. Dalton's two other daughters passed away in the first and second years of their lives. Alonzo Colton, Mrs. Dalton's father, was one of the men who helped purchase the Salt Lake Tabernacle organ by digging gold in Australia. They accompanied the organ to Utah, loading it on the Jennie Ford, a sailing vessel, and unloaded it at Mormon Island in California, now known as Terminal Island. Mr. Colton and the other men gave their fare money to pay the freight on the organ and worked out the cost of their passage. pas-sage. They had to go to Salt Lake and return with teams to get the organ the 'remainder of the way but it was necessary to store the organ as the now world-famous tabernacle was not yet finished. The men then went to Pine Valley, near St. George, to get the timber for the pipes. Mrs. Dalton, a member of the LDS Church, was noted for her devotion de-votion to her husband, her family, and her grandchildren. A friend is quoted as saying that an outstanding outstand-ing characteristic was the tender care she gave her mother during her nine years of illness, at a time when Mrs. Dalton was rearing her own family. She was adept at playing the harmonica har-monica in younger life and played in dance orchestras and for her own and her family's entertainment. |
