337. Ila Coleen Walker
(Research):Coleen Keuning: PRAIRIE CITY Coleen Keuning, 76, of Prairie City died
Tuesday, Jan. 22, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.Funeral services will be Friday at 10:30 a.m. at Prairie City with the Rev.
John Poe officiating. Burial will be at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in
Prairie City. Walters-Coburn Funeral Home in Prairie City is handling
arrangements.Friends may call today at the funeral home where family will be available
fro 5:30 to 8 p.m. Memorials will be accepted to Pleasant Hill United
Methodist Church or Pleasant Hill Community Club.The daughter of Elsmer and Leo Wilson Walker, she was born Sept. 17, 1925 in Mitchellville. She was a 1943 graduate of Prairie High School and on Dec. 14, 1946, she married Albert Keuning in Nashua. She worked at West Hy Vee in Newton and was a member of the Pleasant Hill Community Club, Monroe American Legion Auxiliary, TOPS and Monroe Breakfast Club. She enjoyed family actives and church.
Survivors include four sons and thee daughter-in-law, Dona and Elaine of
Monroe, Dan and Denise, Mark and Max and Patty, all of Prairie City; 10
grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a brother and sister-in-law,
Herbert and Joyce Walker of Prairie City; a sister and brother-in-law,
Shirley and Ernie Frank of Newton; a sister-in-law, Marilyn Walker of
Reasnor; and a brother-in-law, Robert Grandia of Pella.She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and a brother. ~ Newton Daily News, Thursday, January 24, 2002 pg. 6A
(Research):Obituary: Albert Keuning
PRAIRIE CITY - Funeral services for Albert Harrison Keuning, 72, of Prairie City will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 28, at the Prairie City United Methodist Church. The Rev. Reg Merrill, pastor of the church will conduct services. Military graveside rites will be conducted by the Fred Slayden Post of the American Legion of Monroe at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, south of Prairie City. Friends may call at Walter-Colburn Funeral Home in Prairie City from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. today. Memorials to fund in his name will be accepted.
Survivors are his wife, Coleen; four sons and daughters-in-law, Donald and Elaine and Danny and Denise, all of Monroe, and Max and Patty and Mark, all of Prairie City; 10 grandchildren; and a sister, Dorothy (Mrs. Lawrence) Steenhoek of Prairie City. He was preceded in death by his parents, and a sister, Carolina Grandia.
Mr. Keuning, a farmer, was a Navy veteran of World War II. He was a member of the Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church, Fred Slayden Post of the American Legion of Monroe, the Prairie City Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Pleasant Hill Community Club and P.T. Boat Inc. and was 4-H leader, township trustee and a Walnut Creek Fire District trustee.
The son of Henry and Bertha Moll Keuning, he was born Dec 23, 1921 in Cordova. He was married to Ila Coleen Walker Dec 14, 1946 in the Little Brown Church near Nashua. ~ Newton Daily News, April 27, 1994
338. Duane Eugene Walker
(Research):Reasnor Duane "Tuff" Walker, 71, of Reasnor died from heart failure
Thursday, May 31, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.Funeral Services will be Monday at 1 p.m. at the First United Methodist
Church in Newton with the Rev. Duane Skidmore, pastor of the Reasnor United
Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be at Palo Alto Cemetery in
rural Newton. Pence Funeral Home in Newton is handling arrangements.
Friends may call Sunday after 9 a.m. at the funeral home where family will
be present from 3 to 5 p.m. Memorials will be accepted in his name or to
Reasnor United Methodist Church.The son of Elsmer "Kelse" Walker and Leo Wilson, he was born May 15, 1930,
in rural Prairie City. He graduated from Prairie City High School in 1948
and was in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict. He married
Marilyn J. Schultz on Aug. 31, 1956, in Reasnor. He had lived in Prairie
City and Newton before moving to Reasnor in 1965.Mr. Walker worked for 35 years on the Maytag assembly line and retired in
January 1989. He was a member of Reasnor United Methodist Church, Des Moines
Softball Hall of Fame, Monroe American Legion, Iowa Softball Hall of Fame,
councilman, past mayor of Reasnor and manager of Reasnor softball team.Survivors include his wife; a son and daughter-in-law, Kevin and Janice of
Altoona; two daughters and sons-in-law, Janna and Dough Klein of Monroe and
Connie and Jary Hoskey of Le Grand; seven granddaughters; three
great-grandchildren; a brother, Herbert "Buck" Walker of Prairie City; and
two sisters, Coleen Keuning of Prairie City and Shirley Funk of Newton. He
was preceded in death by his parents and a daughter. Newton Daily News,
June 2, 2001