VIOLETTA, John


Wickenburg Sun (Wickenburg, Arizona) Friday, August 29, 1958, p. 1 John Violetta Rites Sunday Funeral services will be conducted in Aguila at 4 p.m. Sunday for John Violetta, well known and respected Aguila cattleman, who died early Thursday morning while enroute to Community Hospital here. Burial will be in the Aguila Cemetery. Mr. Violetta was born January 13, 1897, in Kansas. He came to Arizona while a little boy and had been ranching and caring for cattle in the Wenden, Aguila, Wickenburg and Prescott area for over 55 years. At the time of his death he was employed by the Aguila Cattle Co. Surviving are the widow, Mattie Violetta; a stepson, Arthur Bleeker; and a stepdaughter, Mrs. Pearl Dees, all of Aguila.