Dana F Burton

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Dana F Burton

Date of Birth: 29 Aug 1907

Born In: West Virginia

Age: 25

Occupation: Mechanic

Marital Status: Married

Died: 29 Jul 1932

Cause of Death: Motorcycle Accident, fractured skull

Death Location: Community Hospital

Burial Plot: JEL

FindaGrave ID: 245089852

Obituary

HIGHWAY 'V' TURN CAUSE OF ACCIDENT
Dana F. Burton, 25, is Victim of Mishap

Losing control of his motorcycle on the V-turn at Middlefield and Semi-Circle roads, south of Redwood City, Dana F. Burton, 25, a Palo Alto oil station employee, living at 1931 Roosevelt avenue, Redwood City, was fatally injured about 7 o'clock last night when the vehicle crashed into a telephone pole.
Burton died at 3:45 o'clock this morning in the Community Hospital, Beresford, according to Drs. Robert Monteith and Harry Mason of the emergency hospital here, who attended him.
Death was caused by fracture of the skull. The young man did not regain consciousness during the night.
Richard Martin, 43 Arch street, captain of the Sequoia Union High school swimming team, who with a companion picked up Burton and brought him to the emergency hospital, said the motorcyclist passed him at a rapid rate of speed and failed to negotiate the turn. The rider was thrown over the handlebars of the motorcycle and his head struck the pole. The other man was L. F. Bates, Ninth avenue, North Fair Oaks.
Officer James Snider of the Redwood City Police Department investigated and turned the information over to the state traffic bureau.
Burton's body is at the Layng & Tinney chapel here. He is survived by a wife, Kathleen, a year-old son, Dana Jr. and his father, J. Harry Burton. He was a native of West Virginia.
Burton was on his way to work at a Middlefield road service station near Palo Alto at the time of the accident. He was also employed during the daytime at a Palo Alto sheet metal works. He was a former Marine, being discharged from the service in 1928. He was the son-in-law of John D. Gish, principal of the Woodside school.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 2 o'clock in the Layng & Tinney Funeral Home. Internment will be in Union Cemetery.

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