- Birth: June 10, 1914
- Marriage: Lois Schooley – September 3, 1938
- Death: November 29, 1991
Early Life
Acie Newton and his twin sister, Zelma, were born on June 10, 1914, in Cambridge, Idaho. They were the youngest children of Clemma (Christenot) Newton and Delta Frederick Newton. Zelma’s daughter, Sharon, has shared the story that Del did not want their names to rhyme. Clemma decided one of the names would start with the letter “A” and the other name would start with a letter “Z”. Acie did not receive a middle name. When those twins attended school at a two-room schoolhouse near Cambridge, Idaho, there were three other sets of fraternal twins as well.
Del worked as a building contractor and cabinet maker.
Clemma and Delta divorced in 1924 in Weiser, Idaho, and Clemma moved to Portland, Oregon, where her sister, Amelia “Mae” Christenot Jordan and family lived. Clemma took with her Verda, Esther, the ten-year-old twins, Acie and Zelma, and Jerry. Del moved to Medford, Oregon, where his brother Henry lived, taking along sons Ray, Ernest and Vern. Acie is listed in a 1930 high school yearbook in Medford, where his father Del lived, but the 1930 census lists him in Portland with mother Clemma. He appears in the Lincoln High School (Portland, Oregon) yearbook in 1931.
Acie attended a technical school after high school in Oregon.
Children of Delta and Clemma Newton, Siblings of Acie
- Raymond Frederick Newton (1903-1966)
- Verda Mae (Newton) Kendall Dynge (1904-1971)
- Esther Alice Newton (1906-1965)
- Earnest Edward Newton (1910-1998)
- Vern Orville Newton (1911-1972)
- Acie Newton (1914-1991)
- Zelma Amelia (Newton) Pinkstaff (1914-1969)
Marriage to Lois Schooley
Acie was 24 years old when he married Lois Schooley, 20, in San Francisco, California, on September 3, 1938. He had moved to California to work as a machinist on the Bay Bridge near Oakland. During World War II, Acie tried to enlist in the Navy, but when they found out he was a machinist, they sent him to be a civilian airplane mechanic. He worked at the Naval Air Station in Alameda during the war. He and Lois lived nearby and their first child, Lynette, was born in 1940 and their second child, Jerise, was born in 1942.
Ronald was born in December of 1945 and died in February, 1946. Lynette and Jerise remembered this as a very sad time for the family.
Children of Acie and Lois Newton
- Lynette Yvonne (Newton) Parks Burgett Walker (1940-2009)
- Jerise Ronelle Newton (1942- )
- Ronald Clarke Newton (1945-1946)
- Nancy Estelle Newton (1947- )
- Sally Kate (Newton) Buyonski (1949-2020)
- Joseph Clarke Newton (1954- )
Post-War Years
After the war, Acie worked as a machinist at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California. The family moved to Redwood City, where their final three children were born. In 1956, they moved to Placerville, California, and Acie took a job at Aerojet General, in Sacramento. Like his mother, Clemma, Acie enjoyed gambling and frequently drove to Nevada to do so. He was losing more than he was winning. In the late 1960s, he and Lois separated. He went to live with his mother, Clemma, in her rented house in Palo Alto, California, on Tasso Street.
He took a job at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). He had the title of “Research Technician.” He built the prototypes for the nuclear physics experiments that were conducted there.
From Nancy Newton: “My dad, Acie, helped build a super-conductor tube for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and had to stay in Palo Alto, on call, whenever the Accelerator was running because he was the one who knew where to kick said tube if it broke down.”
From Jerise Newton: “For my dad, Acie, I know the work he did at SLAC was awesome, ground-breaking physics research stuff; and his name is on some patents from there. I remember him talking just one time about it: They had to take movie pictures of what went on inside the accelerator; but the particles there were moving at the speed of light, so you couldn’t catch ’em. Acie figured out a way to time the camera shutter so that you could catch them, see them.”
Later Years
In the late 1970s, Acie retired from Stanford and returned to Placerville. He suffered long-term effects after a fall. He had to retire and he moved to Placerville, where Lois helped with his recovery. He spent his remaining days playing Solitaire, taking long walks with his dogs, and doing repairs around the house. In 1991, he died of congestive heart failure.
Sources
Morris, S. (2019). Clemma Ruth Christenot. In N. Shrauger, Christenot Family Stories: A Compilation of Stories by Family Members (p. 153).
Shrauger, N. (2019). Christenot Family History Chronology.
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