(Bert) Bertrand Jacob Manning Tilton |
| Posted 2016-05-11 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Monday, February 26, 1940, page 1, column 4 City Mourns Bert Tilton A city in mourning will bid farewell to one of its outstanding leaders at funeral services for Bert Tilton, former mayor and pioneer business man to be conducted from the Lester Ruffner Funeral Home tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. City councilmen had declared civic mourning and a city department in which the public figure had been active for 44 and a half years, the Volunteer Fire, today had made preparations for an extraordinary tribute. Firemen will attend last rites in a body. Mr. Tilton had been a member of the department since September 1895, and while chief, from 1915 until 1920, he motorized the division. Firemen will report to the fire house tomorrow afternoon at 2:45 o'clock. The Rev. S. Douglas Walters will officiate at the services and the Aztlan lodge No. 1, Royal Arch Masons, of which Mr. Tilton had been a member since 1908, will conduct rites at the graveside. Interment will be in Mountain View Cemetery. Mr. Tilton's sister-in-law, Mrs. George Tilton, and a niece, Marian Tilton, both of San Bernardino, Calif., had arrived for the services. The former Mayor came to Prescott in 1894 from his native state, New Hampshire, and had been prominent in local affairs for more than four decades. He died Friday morning, indirectly as a result of a fire, which destroyed his building, 117 North Cortez street. See Also: Arizona Gravestone Photo Project |
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