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Obit for Walter Ashby Love

NEW WAVERLY - Walter Ashby Love, 93, died Friday, Nov. 29, 1996.

Memorial services were at 10 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 1, in Reeves Forest Lawn 
Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Dale Cowell officiating.

Mr. Love was born in Lincoln County, Meeker, Okla. In 1915, his family 
homesteaded in Baca County, Colo. He graduated from high school in 1925 at 
Grand Junction, Colo. He moved to Modesto, Calif., in 1926, and to Idaho 
in 1928. He returned to Palisade, Colo., in 1931, and moved back to Idaho 
in 1935.

He married Mildred Nell Young in 1936 at Kootenai County, Idaho.

In 1941, he began working for C.O. Stocker, doing work for Phillips 
Petroleum. He was transferred in 1946 to the gasoline plant as a crane 
operator. He was elected chairman of the gasoline department of Local 
No 351 International Union of Operating Engineers and served two terms. 
He also served 20 years as the Democratic chairman of Precinct Eight.

He retired from Phillips in 1968 and traveled with his wife for ten 
years. They moved to New Waverly in 1995.

Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Lotus Cowell of Houston, 
Laura Rios of Amarillo and Marynell Young of Huntsville; a brother, Harry 
Love of Wenatchee, Wash.; 11 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

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