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| Name | Orval C. Walter |
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August 20, 1903
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| Died | August 14, 1979
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| Info | Orval C. Walter was born on a farm at Lenox, Iowa, August 20, 1903, the son of Belle and John W. Walter. He graduated from Lenox Independent High School in 1921 and attended Iowa State University at Ames in 1921 to 1925. In 1926, he married Dorothy I. Wynn at Winterset, Iowa. They had one son, Richard of Lenox, Iowa and a daughter Mary Joan Hall of Spirit Lake, Iowa.
Mr. Walter was a retired farmer and implement dealer. He served two terms on Lenox school board and two terms on Lenox City Council. He was a member of the Christian Church at Lenox; a Master Mason and member of Easter Star, Za-Ga-Zig Shrine, Des Moines and Rotary International.
He was a State Senator representing Adams and Taylor Counties in 1961-1963 and in the 1964 Special Session was the assistant Law Clerk of the Senate in 1965, a member of the Democratic party.
Senator Walter died at the Rosary Hospital in Corning, Iowa, August 14, 1979, at the age of 75. He was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy, Janury 3, 1976; his parents, and 2 sisters, Bernice Mills and Glena McClintock.
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