OBITUARY: Duane D. Walk, Mitchell County, Iowa




[Mitchell County Press-News, online, www.mcpress.com, Posted Sept. 25, 2001]


                      Duane D. Walk [1945-2001]

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, September 26, 2001 at 1 p.m. at St.
John's Lutheran Church, Charles City, for Duane D. Walk, age 56, formerly of
Charles City, who died Saturday, Sept. 22, 2001 at his home in Rochester, MN.
Rev. Dennis Niezwaag is officiating. 

Duane D. Walk was born Aug. 5, 1945 in Mason City. He attended Little Cedar
school and graduated from Osage High School in 1963. He was employed by the
Osage Lumber. 

On May 2, 1965 he married his wife, Carolyn at St. John's Lutheran Church,
rural Osage. In 1967 he started and established the fertilizer application
facilty for Tuloma products in Charles City. The family moved to Charles City
in 1969 when Duane became Standard Oil bulk fuel products agent. In 1976 he
purchased the jobbership from Amoco. In 1983 he oversaw the razing of the old
bulk plant and built Walk Mini Mart convenience store in Charles City. He sold
that business in 1989 and in 1991 he went to work for Richard Motors Ltd as
a car salesman, sales manager and general manager. He followed with several
other sales ventures. Upon moving to Rochester, MN he was employed by Menards
south until his retirement in Sept. 2000.

Duane was a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Charles City. He was a
former member of the Elks Club, Charles City and a volunteer fire fighter
in Osage and Charles City.

Those that survive him include his wife Carolyn Walk of Rochester, MN; three
children, Daren (Amy) Walk and Jim (Linda) Walk of Rochester, Mark (Kim)
Walk, Nashua; one brother Larry (Louise) Walk of Little Cedar; four
grandchildren, Alex and Cory Walk of Rochester, MN; Austin and Taylor Walk
of Nashua.

Macken Funeral Home, 1195 12 St. S.E., Rochester, MN, was in charge of
arrangements.




Copyright (c) 2001 by Kermit Kittleson; <kermit-k@juno.com>
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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