PROVO -- Joseph B. Walton, 79, prominent educator of this district and a member if Provo's pioneer martial band, died Monday at the family residence in Pleasant View from causes incident to age.

Mr. Walton was born October 10, 1885 (sic), in Alpine, a son of Joseph and Anna Thompson Walton, early Utah pioneers. He graduated from the Brigham Young Academy normal school in 1876, under the tutorship of Dr. Karl G. Maeser.

Following his graduation he obtained a position as teacher in the Provo City schools, serving in that capacity for more than 35 years. For many years he served as principal of the Parker School. In 1911 he retired from active teaching and took up fruit growing at Pleasnt View. He served for eight years as a member of the Alpine school board.

He was always active in activities of the L.D.S. church, and from 1898 to 1900 fulfilled a mission to England. He was a seventy in the church at the time of his death.

Mr. Walton was prominently identified with the the early civic activities of this community and was a member of the Provo martial band. During the last five five years he has written and compiled a statistical and biographical history of the early pioneers of Provo.

He married Emma Jacques in October 30, 1877, in the L.D.S. temple in St. George. She died in July, 1933.

Surviving are one son and three daughters, Berne Walton, Idaho Falls, Idaho; Mrs. W.W. Bennett, Los Angeles; Mrs. Elmo Brereton, Pleasant View, and Mrs. Raymond Freshwater, Ogden; 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.