Biography:
from the Dispatch for August 10, 1993:
Edward D. Walker, 74, died Monday, Aug. 9, 1993, at Trinity Medical Center, East Campus, Moline. Mr. Walker was born Sept. 3, 1918, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Edward and Edith Dunlap Walker. He married Ruth Bollinger on Nov. 16, 1944, in Flint, Michigan.
He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering and a master's degree in metallurgical engineering. He was employed by Deere & Company as a metallurgist for 35 years, retiring in 1982. He started with Deere in Dubuque in 1946, and moved to Moline in 1950. He also had assignments in Argentina and Germany for
Deere.
He was past president and a life member of the American Society of Metallurgical Engineers, a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Moline, and a former member of the Lake Davenport Sailing Club. He had been active in Boy Scouts and was an Eagle Scout.
Biography:
from the Dispatch for August 10, 1993:
Edward D. Walker, 74, died Monday, Aug. 9, 1993, at Trinity Medical Center, East Campus, Moline. Mr. Walker was born Sept. 3, 1918, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Edward and Edith Dunlap Walker. He married Ruth Bollinger on Nov. 16, 1944, in Flint, Michigan.
He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering and a master's degree in metallurgical engineering. He was employed by Deere & Company as a metallurgist for 35 years, retiring in 1982. He started with Deere in Dubuque in 1946, and moved to Moline in 1950. He also had assignments in Argentina and Germany for
Deere.
He was past president and a life member of the American Society of Metallurgical Engineers, a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Moline, and a former member of the Lake Davenport Sailing Club. He had been active in Boy Scouts and was an Eagle Scout.
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