LELAND ORAN WALTERS

LELAND WALTERS WAS BORN DECEMBER 11, 1906 AT BEACONSFIELD, IOWA. HIS PARENTS WERE JAP AND JENNIE (BUNKER) WALTERS. LELAND PASSED AWAY ON FEBRUARY 13, 2008 AT THE MOUNT AYR HEALTH CARE CENTER.

IN 1927 LELAND MARRIED HELEN SHERMAN AND TO THIS UNION WAS BORN ONE DAUGHTER, VIRGINIA LEE. THEY LATER DIVORCED. ON JANUARY 11, 1958 LELAND MARRIED DONNA (BONE) GIRDNER. FROM THIS MARRIAGE LELAND GAINED TWO WONDERFUL DAUGHTERS, ALICE JANE, 14 AND PEGGY SUE, NINE.

LELAND LOVED THE FARM AND WORKING WITH CATTLE AND HORSES. HOWEVER LIFE GAVE HIM A VARIETY OF WORK TO DO; TRUCK DRIVING, MOBILE PARK OWNER, WORKING ON A CATTLE RANCH AND AFTER HE RETIRED IN 1995, HE WENT TO OMAHA, NE. AND WORKED AT HIS NEPHEW’S SERVICE STATION. WHEN LELAND WAS IN HIS 80’S, HE FINALLY RETIRED FOR GOOD AND MOVED BACK TO BEACONSFIELD.

LELAND WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS WIFE, DONNA; HIS PARENTS; THREE SISTERS AND THEIR HUSBANDS, CORA (FRANK) BURLEY, LOIS (PERRY) ROSS AND ELMA (PAUL) GERMAN AND ONE BROTHER AND HIS WIFE CHRIS (WANDA) WALTERS.

LEFT TO CHERISH HIS MEMORY ARE THREE DAUGHTERS, VIRGINIA McALEXANDER AND HUSBAND KENNETH OF BEACONSFIELD, IOWA; JANE PALLAS OF SAN RAFAEL, CA. AND PEGGY CHRISTIANSON AND HUSBAND ROGER OF PAPILLION, NE.; SIX GRANDCHILDREN AND THEIR SPOUSES; 10 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; 13 GREAT-GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND MANY NIECES, NEPHEWS AND FRIENDS.

MEMORIALS HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED TO: HOSPICE OF CENTRAL IOWA, 107 SO. FILLMORE, MOUNT AYR, IOWA  50854, WWW.TOCELEBRATELIFE.ORG.

SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED AT THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN BEACONSFIELD ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2008 AT 1:30 P.M. WITH REV. RICK HAWKINS OFFICIATING. EULOGY WAS GIVEN BY ROGER CHRISTIANSON. ORGANIST WAS MARY ANN SMITH. WILSON-WATSON ARMSTRONG FUNERAL HOME HANDLED ALL THE ARRANGEMENTS.

CASHET BEARERS WERE JERRY McALEXANDER, LARRY McALEXANDER, BRADY CHIRISTIANSON, DAN VAN HORN AND REX WALTERS.

LELAND WAS LAID TO REST IN THE GRAND RIVER CEMETERY IN GRAND RIVER.