Russell Walker

WALKER, STONE, HUNTER, WEIS, WRIGHT

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Date: 4/5/2006 at 21:59:31

Earlham Library Obituaries, September 1991
Earlham, Iowa

Russell Walker

EARLHAM-A funeral for Russell Walker, 69, of Earlham was held Sept. 12, 1991 at the Earlham United Methodist Church. Mr. Walker died of a heart attack on Sept. 9 at Mercy Hospital Medical Center at Des Moines.

The son of Harry and Ruth Anna Stone Walker, he was born at Brooklyn, N.Y. on July 31, 1922. He married Evelyn Hunter on Sept. 17, 1961.

He was a World War II veteran and a member of the East Rockaway Congregational Church at Long Island, N.Y. He lived at Earlham since 1973, and owned and operated Walker Drapery Co. in West Des Moines.

Survivors include his wife, Evelyn; two sons, Tom of Earlham and Peter of Norwalk; two brothers, Harry Walker of Hicksville, Long Island, N.Y., and William Walker of Ozone Park, N.Y.; and two sisters, Violet Weis of Centersach, Long Island, N.Y. and Shirley Wright of Queens Village, N.Y.