Otis Clyde Walker

WALKER, PROTHERO, HUSTON, MCKINLEY, PENICK, COTTON

Posted By: Ida Morse (email)
Date: 3/15/2006 at 21:37:05

Winterset Madisonian, September 27, 1934, Pg 1
Winterset, Iowa

Death of Otis Clyde Walker

Word was received here this week of the death at Denver, Colorado, on September 17, of Otis Clyde Walker, a native of Madison county. He was 42 years old.

Mr. Walker was born near Truro on November 17, 1891, the son of William R. and Viola Walker. He grew to manhood on a Madison county farm, and when a small boy united with the M. E. church at Truro. He graduated from the Macksburg high school with the class of 1910, and spent two years in the C.C.C. college at Des Moines.

In 1912 he homesteaded a farm in Goshen county, Wyoming. At the outbreak of the World war (War), he enlisted in the U. S. army and saw service overseas, returning home on June 26, 1918. After the war until 1923, he lived on his Wyoming farm. He then moved to Akron, Colorado, and in 1926 to Denver, where he made his home until the time of his death.

On May 7, 1927, he was married to Ione Prothero at Ft. Morgan, Colorado

He is survived by his wife, two step-sons, Earl and Delbert Prothero of Oakland, California, his parents at Akron, Colorado; three brothers, William O. Walker of Des Moines, Iowa, R. Lester Walker of Macksburg, Iowa and Ralph N. Walker of Denver, Colorado; four sisters, Mrs. Lela Huston and Lucy McKinley of Akron, Colorado, Mrs. Mildred Penick and Mrs. Ettie Cotton of Chugwater, Wyoming; and four nephews and six nieces.

Military funeral services were held at the Nash Funeral home in Denver on September 19. He was buried in the Fairmont cemetery.