Seth G. WALTON, MD

WALTON, OLER, BRADLEY, GALE, EVANS, BOYINGTON, TROUSDALE, OLSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/6/2007 at 10:40:55

MASON CITY GLOBE GAZETTE
June 17, 1995

Dr. Seth G. Walton, 87, of Hampton, passed away Wednesday (June 14, 1995) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Hampton United Methodist Church in Hampton. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Sietsema-Vogel Funeral Home in Hampton.

Dr. Seth G. Walton was born Oct. 2, 1907, to William Walton and Mae (nee) Oler Walton. He attended rural schools and graduated from Dows High School in Dows, Iowa. He then attended Iowa State Teachers College and taught for one year in Wright County schools. He went back to school at Iowa State Teachers College and taught for one year in Washta, Iowa, where he coached an undefeated, untied football team in Washta. Dr. Seth Walton was married to Evelyn Bradley on Jan. 19, 1933, in Toledo, Ill. while he was still in medical school. To this union was born three children, Betty, Bill and Richard. Dr. Seth G. Walton attended the University of Iowa, where he received his medical degree in 1933. He did a rotating internship at the University Hospitals in Iowa City for one year. He was a surgical resident at Marine Hospital in Chicago, Ill., and came to Hampton to practice in 1936 until 1942 when he enlisted in the Army Medical Corps in April 1942. He spent 38 months in surgical service and headed a general surgical team from D-Day to VE-Day following General Patton's Army. He entered the Army as a first lieutenant and came out a lieutenant colonel. He then returned to Hampton, Iowa, in 1945 to practice in the Hampton Clinic until he retired in 1974. Dr. Seth G. Walton was certified by the American College of Surgeons and the International College of Surgeons. He was a 50-year member of the American Legion and Rotary Club and more than 50 years as a member of the Iowa State Medical Society. He was also a 50-year member of the Masonic Lodge and a member of the Cerro Gordo County Medical Society. He spent one day a month as an instructor at the Family Practice Center in Mason City.

Dr. Seth G. Walton is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Richard (Betty) Gale of Santa Fe, N.M.; and one son, Richard Walton, and his wife, Katie Walton, of Manhattan, N.Y.; and two sisters, Dotha Evans of Austin, Minn., and June Boyington of Hampton, Iowa; and five grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, William and Mae; his wife, Evelyn Walton; one infant child, Bill; two sisters, Hazel Olson and Ottsie Trousdale; and two brothers, Faye Walton and Glenn Walton.