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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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