husband of Betty Jean Heiser
father of Gene, Janet & Thad
LYONS - Walter L. Allton, 92, died June 8, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital.
He was born Sept. 1, 1913, in Harper, the son of Walter and Belle Havens Allton. He graduated from Pittsburg State University in 1937. A Hutchinson resident since 2005, moving from Lyons where he had lived since 1947, he was an industrial arts teacher at Lyons High School, retiring in 1979, and was a basketball and track coach and theater instructor.
He belonged to United Methodist Church, Kiwanis Club, serving as past president, and the Liars Club, all in Lyons, and was inducted in to the Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame in 1988. He served in the U.S. Navy and Seabees during World War II.
On Dec. 25, 1940, he married Betty Jean Heiser in Anthony. She survives.
Other survivors include: two sons, Gene, Hutchinson, and Thad, Topeka; a daughter, Janet Gresnick, Baldwin City; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday at United Methodist Church, Lyons, with the Rev. Cindy Watson presiding. Visitation will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Sillin Funeral Home, Lyons. Burial will be in Lyons Municipal Cemetery.
Memorials may be sent to Lyons High School or to the United Methodist Church, both in care of the funeral home.
father of Gene, Janet & Thad
LYONS - Walter L. Allton, 92, died June 8, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital.
He was born Sept. 1, 1913, in Harper, the son of Walter and Belle Havens Allton. He graduated from Pittsburg State University in 1937. A Hutchinson resident since 2005, moving from Lyons where he had lived since 1947, he was an industrial arts teacher at Lyons High School, retiring in 1979, and was a basketball and track coach and theater instructor.
He belonged to United Methodist Church, Kiwanis Club, serving as past president, and the Liars Club, all in Lyons, and was inducted in to the Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame in 1988. He served in the U.S. Navy and Seabees during World War II.
On Dec. 25, 1940, he married Betty Jean Heiser in Anthony. She survives.
Other survivors include: two sons, Gene, Hutchinson, and Thad, Topeka; a daughter, Janet Gresnick, Baldwin City; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday at United Methodist Church, Lyons, with the Rev. Cindy Watson presiding. Visitation will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Sillin Funeral Home, Lyons. Burial will be in Lyons Municipal Cemetery.
Memorials may be sent to Lyons High School or to the United Methodist Church, both in care of the funeral home.
husband of Betty Jean Heiser
father of Gene, Janet & Thad
LYONS - Walter L. Allton, 92, died June 8, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital.
He was born Sept. 1, 1913, in Harper, the son of Walter and Belle Havens Allton. He graduated from Pittsburg State University in 1937. A Hutchinson resident since 2005, moving from Lyons where he had lived since 1947, he was an industrial arts teacher at Lyons High School, retiring in 1979, and was a basketball and track coach and theater instructor.
He belonged to United Methodist Church, Kiwanis Club, serving as past president, and the Liars Club, all in Lyons, and was inducted in to the Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame in 1988. He served in the U.S. Navy and Seabees during World War II.
On Dec. 25, 1940, he married Betty Jean Heiser in Anthony. She survives.
Other survivors include: two sons, Gene, Hutchinson, and Thad, Topeka; a daughter, Janet Gresnick, Baldwin City; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday at United Methodist Church, Lyons, with the Rev. Cindy Watson presiding. Visitation will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Sillin Funeral Home, Lyons. Burial will be in Lyons Municipal Cemetery.
Memorials may be sent to Lyons High School or to the United Methodist Church, both in care of the funeral home.
father of Gene, Janet & Thad
LYONS - Walter L. Allton, 92, died June 8, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital.
He was born Sept. 1, 1913, in Harper, the son of Walter and Belle Havens Allton. He graduated from Pittsburg State University in 1937. A Hutchinson resident since 2005, moving from Lyons where he had lived since 1947, he was an industrial arts teacher at Lyons High School, retiring in 1979, and was a basketball and track coach and theater instructor.
He belonged to United Methodist Church, Kiwanis Club, serving as past president, and the Liars Club, all in Lyons, and was inducted in to the Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame in 1988. He served in the U.S. Navy and Seabees during World War II.
On Dec. 25, 1940, he married Betty Jean Heiser in Anthony. She survives.
Other survivors include: two sons, Gene, Hutchinson, and Thad, Topeka; a daughter, Janet Gresnick, Baldwin City; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday at United Methodist Church, Lyons, with the Rev. Cindy Watson presiding. Visitation will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Sillin Funeral Home, Lyons. Burial will be in Lyons Municipal Cemetery.
Memorials may be sent to Lyons High School or to the United Methodist Church, both in care of the funeral home.
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