Seldon Frederick "Slip" Banker (1952)
BANKER, JURECKA
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:13
The Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
Wednesday, July 30, 1952
Page 7, Column 3SELDON BANKER IS DEAD AT 56
Seldon (Slip) Banker, 56, of West Des Moines, winner of the 1950 West Des Moines community service award, died Tuesday of a heart ailment at Veterans hospital. Death followed an extended illness.
President of the West Des Moines drum and bugle corps from 1933 to 1950, Mr. Banker again became president upon the death of Clyde Fairgrave last January. He was in charge during its three successive years as state champion.
Mr. Banker was a leader in the erection of the new American Legion building in West Des Moines, constructed through the drum corps’ fund-raising activities. A disabled veteran of World War I, he was commander of Valley American Legion post in 1940.
Because of ill health, he had been unable to work for many years.
He was a Valley High school football star.
Surviving Mr. Banker are his wife, Bessie; and a sister, Mrs. Phillip Jurecka, Hollywood, Cal.
________________________Transcriber's note: The deceased has an 1896 Madison County Birth Record. Middle name taken from WWII Draft Registration.
Madison Obituaries maintained by Linda Griffith Smith.
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