Leon Alec Walker (1968)

WALKER, DUFF, WELLER, ALLSUP

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 11/30/2012 at 07:51:51

Winterset Madisonian – July 24, 1968
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Six in Car Survive But-----

One Youth Killed in Crash

Leon A. Walker, 19, of Winterset, was killed Sunday morning in a highway accident two and a half miles south of Winterset on Highway 169.

Walker was a passenger in the car, driven by Steve Allen, 17, of Winterset. The car contained seven young men when it went out of control and rolled several times into a deep ravine bordering the highway. Several of the others were seriously injured.

The accident occurred about 4:15 a.m. Sunday as the young men were returning to Winterset from Peru. The car went out of control on curving road at that point.

This is the second highway fatality of 1968 in Madison county, and occurred just nine days, after the death of Arnold Leigh of Carroll, who was killed here July 12. Prior to that, this county had more than seven months of 1968 free of death on the highway.

This was the second time in less than three years for this type of tragedy to strike the family of Leon Walker’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Walker of Winterset. His brother, Richard Walker, was killed Nov. 16, 1965, in a highway crash north of Winterset on Highway 169.

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Leon A. Walker was born Feb. 1, 1949, in Madison county a son of Fred Alec and Florence Duff Walker. He had lived in Winterset most of his life, and graduated from Winterset High School with the class of 1968.

In addition to his parents, he leaves two sisters, Mrs. Jack Weller of Truro and Mrs. Earl Allsup of Winterset; and four brothers, Ronald Walker of Winterset, Fred Walker of Guthrie, Minn., Tommy Walker of Des Moines and Micky Walker of St. Charles.

Funeral services were to be held this Wednesday at 2 p.m. from the Collins Funeral Home in Winterset. Burial was to be made in Pleasant View cemetery.

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