Representative Charles Ernest Walters View All Years

HONORABLE C. E. WALTERS

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the late C. E. Walters, of Tama county, Iowa, begs leave to submit the following report:

C. E. Walters was born in Toledo, Iowa, September 20, 1867, the son of William C. and Mary Reynolds Walters, and died on Friday, January 6, 1939, death resulting from pneumonia. He received his early education in the Toledo public schools, was graduated from Cornell College, Mount Vernon, in 1891 and from the University of Michigan law school in 1893. He practiced law in Toledo continuously from that year, with the exception of the years he was special assistant attorney general and judge.

Mr. Walters was married June 30, 1898, to Miss Pearl Reedy of Toledo. To them was born one son, Charles. Mrs. Walters died in 1911, and the son on November 23, 1925, at Talache, Idaho. On May 25, 1917, Mr. Waltars married Clara Burkhart Watson, who, with her son, Ellsworth Watson, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, survives. Other survivors in the immediate family are two grandsons, Donald and Dudley Walters, Amboy, Illinois, and a brother, J. P. Walters of Toledo.

Membership by Mr. Walters was held in the Toledo Masonic and Odd Fellow lodges, Scottish Rite Masonic and Shrine orders and the Methodist church.

Many earned and well deserved honors came to him in life. He was appointed judge of the district court in 1936. He was special assistant attorney general in the highway department from 1932 to 1936.

He was Tama county representative in the Twenty-ninth General Assembly, had served as county attorney of Tama county, was a member of the Toledo school board for six years chairman of the Tama county defense council during the World war, and had been active in the promotion of good roads.

An important part was taken by Mr. Walters in drawing up the bill which created the State Juvenile Home, and he had a prominent part in the location of this institution in Toledo, an institution which has done much in the conservation of Iowa’s dependent and neglected children.

Therefore, Be It Resolved, by the House of Representatives of the forty­eighth General Assembly, That in the passing of the Honorable C. E. Walters, the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen, and that the House of Representatives would tender, by this resolution, its sincere and heartfelt sympathy to his widow and the surviving members of his family in their sorrow, and

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

RAPHAEL R. R. DVORAK,

HARRY E. WEICHMAN,

JOHN KNUDSON,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted, April 12, 1939.