Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Walker, Charles A. December 21, 1963
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Lake Odessa Wave-Thurs. Jan. 9, 1964

Local Resident Passes Away
Charles A. Walker, 82, a local community resident for 17 years passed away at
Blodgett Memorial Hospital in Grand Rapids Tuesday, Dec. 21st.

Mr. Walker was born in Davidsons, Mains, Edinburgh, Scotland June 22. 1881. He went
to Harrow, Ontario, at the age of 17, where he served in the Canadian  army after which
he came to Michigan and was herdsman on the Prescott Ranch at Prescott, Michigan.
Shortly after, he accepted a position as herdsman at Michigan State University, where he
served in that capacity for twenty six years. He retired from the University in 1946 and came
to Lake Odessa as herdsman on the Walter Reed Hereford Farms, where he had charge of 300 
head of whiteface cattle. He fitted many good cattle and produced the Grand Champion
Hereford which was sold at the Western Michigan Livestock Show at Grand Rapids in
1953.

Since his retirement he had made his home with Mrs. Ada Shupp on Jordan lake
Street.

Surviving are two nieces, Mrs. Donalda Sellick of Harrow, Ontario, Mrs. Dorothy
Wilson of Hamilton, Ontario, and a sister Mrs. May Scott of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Services were held at the Pickens Funeral Chapel Saturday. Jan. 4, with Rev. Luther
Brokaw officiating. Burial in Glendale cemetery at Okemos in the shadow of Michigan State 
University.

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