Mrs. Myrtle Zona Walter, wife of C. Harold Walter of North Salem, died about 9:30 a.m. Monday morning after an illness of an hour. Mrs. Walter had been in failing health for about two years but had been seriously ill only about
an hour before she died.
The daughter of George and Eliza Dinsmore Ragsdale, Mrs. Walter was born February 27, 1897 near Pittsboro. In 1918 she was married to C. Harold Walter and they lived in the Pittsboro community until 1951 when they moved to the A. J. Stevenson farm near North Salem where they lived when Mrs. Walter died.
Funeral services will be this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the North Salem Christian Church, of which she was a member, in charge of the Rev. Richard Berkey. Burial will be in the Lizton Cemetery.
Survivors besides the husband are three daughters, Geneva and Isabelle Woodrum, both of North Salem; Marilyn Gossett of Greenfield; five sons, William of Morocco; Robert of Camp Stewart, Ga.; Roy of Fort Lewis, Wash., and Dwayne of North Salem. Two sons and one daughter preceded her. Also
surviving are the mother, Eliza I. Ragsdale, Pittsboro; three sisters, Mrs. Cleo Haffner, Lebanon; Mrs. Opal Pounds, Indianapolis; Mrs. Vida Bailey, Lizton and two brothers, Ray Ragsdale, Pittsboro and Golda Ragsdale of Lebanon.
Mrs. Myrtle Zona Walter, wife of C. Harold Walter of North Salem, died about 9:30 a.m. Monday morning after an illness of an hour. Mrs. Walter had been in failing health for about two years but had been seriously ill only about
an hour before she died.
The daughter of George and Eliza Dinsmore Ragsdale, Mrs. Walter was born February 27, 1897 near Pittsboro. In 1918 she was married to C. Harold Walter and they lived in the Pittsboro community until 1951 when they moved to the A. J. Stevenson farm near North Salem where they lived when Mrs. Walter died.
Funeral services will be this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the North Salem Christian Church, of which she was a member, in charge of the Rev. Richard Berkey. Burial will be in the Lizton Cemetery.
Survivors besides the husband are three daughters, Geneva and Isabelle Woodrum, both of North Salem; Marilyn Gossett of Greenfield; five sons, William of Morocco; Robert of Camp Stewart, Ga.; Roy of Fort Lewis, Wash., and Dwayne of North Salem. Two sons and one daughter preceded her. Also
surviving are the mother, Eliza I. Ragsdale, Pittsboro; three sisters, Mrs. Cleo Haffner, Lebanon; Mrs. Opal Pounds, Indianapolis; Mrs. Vida Bailey, Lizton and two brothers, Ray Ragsdale, Pittsboro and Golda Ragsdale of Lebanon.
Family Members
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Charles Elvin Walter
1917–1949
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Geneva Lucile Walter Swartz
1918–2006
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Rev George William "Bill" Walter
1919–2002
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Frances Irene Walter
1921–1940
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Eva Isabelle Walter Woodrum
1922–2011
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Marilyn Walter Gossett
1924–2017
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Richard Eugene Walter
1926–1930
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Robert Ray Walter
1929–1990
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James Edgar Walter
1929–1994
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Roy Albert Walter
1931–2008
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Dwayne Keith Walter
1934–2011
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