OBITUARY: Margaret Swann Walker, Mitchell County, Iowa


                  FUNERAL HELD FOR MRS. MARGARET WALKER

Funeral services were held Friday morning at the Champion funeral home in
Osage for a former resident, Mrs. Margaret Walker, 87, who died last Tuesday
at a Minneapolis nursing home where she was a resident three years.

The Rev. Wesley Anderson, pastor of the Baptist church here, was in charge
of the services.  Burial was in the Osage cemetery.

Margaret Swann was born Oct. 1, 1878, at Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She was
married to Henry C. Walker, Jan. 3, 1899, in Minnesota. The family lived
in Minneapolis and Osage. Her husband was employed by the Casey Implement
firm here.

Survivors include her daughter, Mrs. Nelia Downey of Minneapolis; one sister,
Mrs. Priscilla Swann, formerly of Osage, and now of Mason City; six
grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. 

She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents and one son.





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