Elinor "Buzz" (Adams) Walters (2009)

ADAMS, BARKER, WALTERS

Posted By: Shirley Keating
Date: 8/6/2009 at 22:26:17

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 5, 2009

ELINOR WALTERS, WINTERSET

Elinor “Buzz” Walters, 81, of Winterset died Aug. 1, 2009, at Madison County Memorial Hospital in Winterset.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, Aug. 4, at the First United Presbyterian Church in Winterset. Burial was at Winterset Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be directed to her church or the Winterset Community Educational Foundation. Funeral arrangements were handled by Ochiltree Funeral Service in Winterset.

Elinor Walters was born Sept. 28, 1927, in Manchester to G.L. and Ruth (Barker) Adams. She graduated from Manchester High School in 1945 and from the University of Northern Iowa in 1949. Elinor, who received her master’s degree from Drake University, was a teacher of English and speech in Guthrie Center, Central City and Story City. She later worked for several years as a guidance counselor for the Winterset Community School District, retiring in 1994. Her marriage to Robert A. Walters of Guthrie Center took place June 17, 1951. The couple moved to Winterset in 1959 where Mr. Walters was co-owner of Thompson-Walters Shoes (later Village Bootery). Elinor was a member and an elder of the First United Presbyterian Church in Winterset and a member of Chapter AG P.E.O. and the Progressive Study Club. She was active in many civic and educational causes in Winterset through the years and was a very active member of the Apple Tree Players. She also sang in the Lions Show Community Chorus for many years.

She was preceded in death by her husband, a brother, and a sister.

She is survived by three sons — Mark L. Walters of Sunland, Calif., Steven A. Walters of Adel, and Brian J. Walters of Aurora, Ill.; and two grandchildren.

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