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WALTER SHERMAN PRITCHARD, legislator, banker and farmer, died at Garner, Iowa, November 30, 1946; born at Belmond, Wright county, Iowa, September 28, 1871, son of John Sherman and Florine Bloom Pritchard, the former a member of the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and Thirty first General Assemblies; educated in the Belmond schools, and the Northern Iowa Business college at Garner; married in 1896 to Jennie Finch and they have five sons and three daughters; served as mayor of Garner two years and a member of the council six years; engaged in banking first as cashier of the Belmond State Bank from 1890 to 1900; at different periods has devoted his energies to livestock raising, farming and distribution of automobiles in partnership with three of his sons; was a member of the Iowa General Assembly three terms, but not a candidate this year for re-election; a director and former member of the legislative committee of the Iowa Automobile Dealers Association; a member of the Masonic order, a past president of the Lions club and a Republican; active in Boy Scout work and the Farm Bureau and political circles in county and district.