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- Walter Elbert Watts, son of Walter Irvin and Nettie Perrott Watts, was born on March4,1909, at Early IA. He passed away at the Alta Memorial Hospital where he had been a patient for seven weeks on April 13,1983, at the age of 73 years 1 month and 9 days. He suffered severe paralytic stroke on September 8,1978, with complications following. Elbert spent his childhood days in the Storm Lake area later moving with his parents to Sumner in Eastern Iowa where he graduated in 1922 from the Sumner High School. He then attended one semester of college at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, graduating at midterm in a business course. He worked at a Produce store in Marcus, IA, for several months, then returned to his chosen profession of farming. He was a member of the United Methodist Church where he held several offices when health permitted. He was Nokomis Township clerk for 19 years and in the late sixties was cemetery custodian in which he took great interest. He was a 4-H leader, served in the 4-H county committee and the ASCS early program. He was interested and active in the welfare of his community. He was preceded in death by his parents and one infant brother. On March 25,1931, he was united in marriage to Esther Strom at Alta. To this union two sons were born. Surviving are his wife, Esther, his Sons, Russell and wife Florence of Ft. Worth, Texas, Kenneth and his wife Sharon of Cherokee; Five Grandchildren and four great Grandchildren; one brother Guy of Alta, two sisters Jeanette Watts and Edith Gregg of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Six Nephews and many other relatives and friends. Funeral services were held Monday April 18 at 11:00 A.M. from the United Methodist Church in Alta with Rev. A. F. Schneck officiating. Honorary attendants were Earl Molgaard, Wesley Kindwall, Warren Hix, and Art Friedrich. Attendants were Wayne Ericksen, Howard Peterson, Robert Magnuson, Ray Mortensen, Warren Jimmerson, and Dr. Brian Walsh. Interment was in the Woodlawn Cemetery at Alta under the direction of the Jones Funeral Home. Information provided by the Alta Advertiser April 21,1983, Alta, IA Birth: Esther Watts: Family History Moved to farm South of Storm Lake south of IPS steam plant. In 1940 they bought and moved to a farm west of Alta lived there until 1973. Moved to Alta in new house. Both are buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery.
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