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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Beulah Walton
Age: 91
City: Washington
Funeral Date
10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, Powell Funeral Home, Wellman
Funeral Home
Yower-Powell Funeral Home, Washington
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Beulah Walton
BEULAH WALTON
Washington
Beulah E. Walton, 91, passed away Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014, at the United Presbyterian Health Center in Wash-ington, Iowa. Celebration of Life service will be at 10:30 a.m. Wed-nesday, Sept. 24, at the Powell Funeral Home in Wellman. Pastor Jim Stiles will officiate. Burial will be in the Wellman Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, at the funeral home.
Beulah was born Nov. 6, 1922, near Wellman, Iowa, the daughter of Clifford W. and Lela Marie (Hagist) Freel. She graduated from Wellman High School. Beulah taught school in Harper, Iowa, for a number of years. She was united in marriage to Lyle Raymond Walton on Nov. 29, 1941, in Lancaster, Mo. The couple lived in the Wellman area for a short time before moving to a farm near Webster, they lived on the farm for a number of years before moving to Washington. She was a former member of the Asbury United Methodist Church in Wellman and a member of the United Methodist Church in Washington.
She is survived by two sons, Gary Walton of Coralville and Barry Walton of Iowa City; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Beulah was preceded in death by her parents; husband in 1989; a son, Douglas; two brothers, Herbert Freel and Wesley Freel; and a sister, Alyne Erwin.
Memorials are for the Washington County Hospice.
Messages and tributes may be left at www.powell
funeralhomes.com.
The family would like to thank Dr. Mathew Prihoda, Washington County Hospice and United Presbyterian Health Center for all their help and support.

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