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Show GRANT TOLTON DIES IN SALT LAKE Funeral services for Grant H. Tolton, 51, who died Thursday, Feb. 23 in a Salt Lake Hospital following a lingering illness, were conducted from the Beaver Beav-er First-Third ward chapel last Monday afternoon. He had been confined to the hospital for several weeks but was thought to be improving until shortly before his death. Mr. Tolton's death followed less than a week after the death of his father, John F. Tolton, who passed away in Arizona. Grant H. Tolton was born in Beaver, July 22, 1898, youngest son of John F. and Caroline Hales Tolton. He received his education in the Beaver schools and the Murdock Academy, and attended the University of Utah. He married Marian Mitchell of Parowan in the Salt Lake Temple, June 3, 1920. He had been a lifelong member mem-ber and active worker in the L D S church, and had been active in civic affairs for many years. In 1948 he was elected to the Beaver County Board" of Education, and had previously served a term as Beaver County Commissioner. For the past several years he had been manager man-ager of the J..F. Tolton Investment. Invest-ment. Company. He was an officer in the National Na-tional Guard, and was assigned to duty at San Luis Obispo, (Continued on Page Four) Here's More About TOLTON j Continued from Page One Calif., at the outbreak of the last war, but was discharged because of poor health. Besides his widow, he is survived sur-vived by two sons and a daughter, daugh-ter, Grant Mitchell Tolton of Beaver, John Gordon Tolton of Provo, and Mrs. Marian Louise Merryweather of Denver; two grandchildren, and the following follow-ing brothers and sisters: Aubrey F. Tolton of Los Angeles, J. Carl Tolton, Mrs. Irene Hammond Ham-mond and Mrs. LaRue Anderson of Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Lulu T. Tanner of Phoenix, Ariz. John F. Tolton had been a leader in Beaver political, civic and church activities for more than 50 years. He served a mission to Great Britain in 1884, and had held many church offices since his return. In 1916 he served as president of the Beaver Stake. I He was born at Fort Ephraim ' in San Pete County, in 1861. : He moved to Beaver in 1866. He helped organize the Democratic Dem-ocratic party in Beaver in 1890, and since that time had held dozens of civic offices. He or- f ganized the Tolton Investment , Co., but retired from active ' management of the business 1 several years ago. He married Caroline Hales, ' in the St. George temple, Oct. j 13, 1896. Mrs. Tolton preceded him in death in 1941. Survivors include three sons and three daughters, Aubrey F. Tolton of California, J. Carl Tolton, Mrs. Irene T. Hammond and Mrs. LaRue T. Anderson of J Salt Lake, and Mrs. Lulu T. , Tanner of Phoenix, Ariz., and I a brother,. Walter S. Tolton of Paragonah. |
