Claude Arnold Dalton
	North Tazewell, Tazewell County, VA
Claude Arnold Dalton, 82, died Monday, August 31, 2009.  Born November 29, 1926 in Pocahontas, Va., he was a son of the late Walter E. Dalton and Kathleen Whittaker Dalton.  He was a member of the Tip Top United Methodist Church.

Mr. Dalton served 28 months in the U.S. Army, was a World War II Veteran attached to the 6th Aircraft Repair Unit, and a member of the Barns Beavers VFW Post #7136 of Tazewell, Va.  He was a coal miner and retired after 38 years with US Steel Gary #14.  Claude was a lifetime miner and farmer.  He was preceded in death by four brothers. Survivors include his wife of sixty-five years, Gladys Puckett Dalton, one daughter, Wanda Proffitt-Bowles, two sons, Sonny Dalton and Garry Dalton, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  Burial was at Grandview Memory Gardens in Bluefield, Va., where military graveside rites were conduected by members of the VFW Post #7136.
Published in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph on 9/2/2009 
(Submitted by Sharon Minton Hill and Published by Melanie D. Crain in the "Dalton Gang Letters")