WALDEN, Charles Raymond

WALDEN, STOUGHTON, DELONG, ROSE, BYERS, PARKER, IVERSON

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Date: 5/8/2017 at 15:16:26

C.R. WALDEN, 95, RITES ARE SET FOR FRIDAY

Charles Raymond Walden, 95, retired farmer, died at his home at Mt. Zion about 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday. He had been in ill health for more than a year.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Presbyterian church at Mt. Zion with the Rev. Howard C. Irvine of Birmingham in charge. Burial will be at the Purdom cemetery.

Charles Raymond Walden was born near Zanesville, in Licking County, Ohio, October 24, 1854. He was the second child in a family of 4 brothers and 6 sisters born to Emory Osgood and Ruinda Stoughton Walden, of early new England descent. In his infancy, the family moved to Steele County, Minn., near Owatonna, where he lived under pioneer conditions until in his 14th year when the family moved by ox teams and covered wagons, driving their stock across Iowa to Worth County, Mo., near Grant City.

In early manhood, he left the parental home and came to Iowa, living in Madison and Adair counties for 38 years. In 1912 he moved with his family to Deleware County, and to Van Buren County in the Mt. Zion neighborhood in 1913, where he lived until his death.

On March 3, 1880, he was married to Miss Emma May DeLong of Winterset. To them were born four children: Lloyd Frank Walden of Avenal, Calif.; Winifred at home; Mrs. Alice Rose of Los Angeles, Calif.; and Mrs. Mildred Byers of San Antonio, Texas. They also took into their home and reared a neighbor's infant daughter, Helen Parker, left without care by the death of her mother. She is now Helen Iverson of Sioux City, Iowa.

Mrs. Walden died on March 6, 1929, since which time Mr. Walden and Winifred have kept up their home in Mt. Zion. He leaves besides his children, 9 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Martha Sunderland of Freeport, Ill., and many nephews and nieces.

He was converted and joined the Baptist church as a young man and after that was a member and active worker in whatever church was near his home, the United Bretheren, the United Presbyterian, in which he was ordained an elder over 40 years ago, the Mt. Zion Presbyterian, where he served as Sunday School teacher and elder for many years.

He was a farmer all of his life until retiring. He loved life and often said that he would like to live it all over again. His ideal was to be a good citizen and neighbor.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book H, Page 143, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA

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