MILES, Walter L.

MILES, GEASLAND, BOOTH, LARSON, MCKEE, LAFRENTZ, BOOHER, NEVILLE, SUNKENBERG, LINDGAARD, WHITE

Posted By: Colette (email)
Date: 3/14/2003 at 19:21:22

Miles Found Dead from Gun Wound
Walter L. Miles, 59, of Rural Route Cherokee, was dead when Bud Stroud, Cherokee County sheriff, arrived at the farm 7 miles west and a quarter mile north on a county road at 10:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Cherokee County Medical Examiner Dr. Don Koser reported that Miles died of a self-inflicted wound in the head from a 22-caliber rifle. (Source: Former Cherokee County Historical Society scrapbook clipping hand dated 7-9-69)

Walter L. Miles (handwritten - 7/9/1969)

Walter L. Miles, 58, died at 9 p.m. Tuesday at his farm home in Sheridan Township where he lived the last four years. He formerly had lived in Cherokee.
He was Born July 1910 in Cherokee and was married to Josie Geasland in November 1932. On May 10, 1963, he was married to Charlotte Booth.
For the past 15 years, he had been employed with the Cherokee County maintenance department.
He was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Survivors are his wife, Charlotte, five daughters, Mrs. Eldon Larson of Pauline, Mrs. Ivan McKee, Excel, S.D., Mrs. Roy LaFrentz, Quince, Mrs Fred
Booher, Cherokee, and Mrs. Charles Neville, ILL., three sons Walter Miles Jr. St. Paul,Minn. William of Commercial City, Colo. and Cpl John Miles Camp Pendleton, Calf. four Stepsons Emery Booth, Hous-
ton, TX Clifford Booth Cherokee, James E. of Newton, and LeRoy, Cherokee; and one step-daughter Mrs. Everett Sunkenberg, Spencer, 25 grandchildren
and one step-great grandson.
Two sisters, Mrs. Kay White and Walter Lindgaard, both Lamoni, IA and three brothers, Albert, Roy, and Fred Miles, all of Cherokee, also survive.
His parents, two sisters and one brother preceded him in death.
Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Friday from Boothby Funeral home Burial Will be in Oak
Hill Cemetery.

(found at the Cherokee County Archives)