Rex Leroy Walker

WALKER, REED, MCKEE, KIDDOO, LOWREY, GILLOGLY, MITCHELL

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 7/17/2006 at 17:43:08

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
February 23, 1994

REX WALKER, Winterset

Rex Leroy Walker, 81, of Bethesda Care Center in Winterset died February 19, 1994 at the Community Health Care Center in Winterset. Graveside memorial services were held at the Winterset Cemetery on February 22, 1994 with the Rev. Bob Epperson officiating. The body was cremated.

He was born March 26, 1912 near Orient in Adair County to Judson N. and Ida M. (Reed) Walker. He was a self-employed farmer and lived in Madison County most of his life, living the first seven years in the Orient area. His special interest was working with his purebred polled shorthorn cattle.

He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Elton, Cecil and Wesley; and two sister-in-laws, Lucile and Bessie Walker.

Surviving relatives include one brother, Harley Walker and wife Ruth of Orient; one sister, Doris McKee and husband Orlie of San Jose, Calif.; one sister-in-law, Pauline Walker of Scottsbluff, Nebr.; four nieces, Esther Walker, Patty Kiddoo, Nancy Lowrey, Joyce Gillogly; and six nephews, Charles, James, John and Glenn Walker, and Wendell and Dale Mitchell.