Walter Valentine Gingerich

Canby Herald, Sept 20, 1951, page 1

Walter V. Gingerich Passes Away at Home In Riverside District

On his 63rd birthday, Walter V. Gingerich died at 11 p.m., Tuesday at his home, Everbreeze farm, in the Riverside district where he and Mrs. Gingerich had made their home for nine years. He had been ill the past month. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 o'clock in Zion Mennonite church, near Hubbard, Rev. Claud Hostetler and Rev. Edward Kenagy officiating. Interment will be in Zion Mennonite cemetery. Canby Funeral home is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Gingerich, who worked last summer for Buchanan-Cellers Grain company and was forced to give up similar work this summer because of failing health, was born Sept. 18, 1888, near Kalona, Iowa. He attended Hesston college and Bible school at Hesston, Kansas, as a young man, and was married at Filer, Idaho, Sept. 15, 1915, to Alta Snyder. With his wife and family he came to Oregon in 1921 after living a short time in Canada after 1917 and spent several years in the Macksburg district, and three years near Albany, before coming to Canby from Portland, where they had gone in 1941. He had farmed his property bordering Ferry road at Bouncy boulevard in riverside since locating in this area. A lifetime member of the Mennonite church, he was affiliated with Portland Mennonite Gospel mission at the time of his death. Besides his widow, Alta, he leaves four children, Vernon of the Hawthorne district, Paul and Wayne at home, and Mrs. Loyd H. (Alice) Larrew of Blaine, Ore.; four grandchildren, Raymond, John, Douglas and Dorothy Elaine Gingerich of Hawthorne. He was the second of the 10 children born to Joseph C. and Catherine Swartzengruber Gingerich to pass away, with seven brothers and one sister remaining--Fred of Salem, Daniel and Ed in Michigan, Amos, Simon, Ezra and Emma in Iowa, and Joseph in Minnesota. He was the brother-in-law of Albert, Allan and Paul Snyder, Mrs. Omar Miller and Miss Anna Snyder of Canby, and of Mrs. Frank Shank of Hubbard.

• Updated from Find A Grave Memorial via Alta Blanche Gingerich (born Snyder) by SmartCopy: May 4 2015, 23:43:57 UTC