Wallace Ernest "Wally" Broeker ⁴

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1920, Yellow Spring Township, Des Moines County, Iowa. ⁹ Wallace Broeker, son, male, white, age 8, single, attended school during the previous year, born in Iowa, father born in Iowa, mother born in Iowa, could speak English, occupation none

• Census, 1930, Yellow Spring Township, Des Moines County, Iowa. ¹⁰ Wallace E. Broeker, son, male, white, age 18, single, attended school during the past year, could read and write, born in Iowa, father born in Iowa, mother born in Iowa, state code 65, could speak English, no occupation

• High School: Morning Sun High School, 1931, Morning Sun, Louisa County, Iowa. ¹¹

• Occupation. ⁴ Wally was a farmer in Louisa County, Iowa.

• Obituary: The Hawk Eye, January 19, 1998, Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa. ³ Wallace E. "Wally" Broeker, 86, of Wapello, formerly of Morning Sun, died Saturday, January 17, 1998, at Wapello Nursing and Care Center.

Born August 5, 1911, near Morning Sun, he was the son of William and Mary Teager (sic: Taeger) Broeker. He married Ruth R. Walker in August 1932 in Illinois. She died in March 1939. He then married Ruth A. Wheeler in February 1941 in Davenport. She died in March 1987.

Mr. Broeker was a lifelong farmer. He was raised in rural Des Moines County and attended the Rock Bottom country school and graduated from Morning Sun High School.

He was a member of First United Presbyterian Church at Morning Sun, where he served as a trustee for many years. He also served as a trustee for Yellow Spring Township.

Survivors include two daughters, Beverly Marshall of DeWitt and Shirley Smith of Wapello; six grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; one brother, Orville Broeker of Morning Sun; and one sister, Leora Palmer of Columbia, Missouri.

Besides both wives, he was preceded in death by his parents, one brother, one sister, one granddaughter and one great-grandson.

Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. today at Hagele and Honts Funeral Home at Morning Sun, where the family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m.

The funeral for Mr. Broeker will be will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at First United Presbyterian Church, with the Reverends Jack Edmisson and Jerry Palmer [note: his nephew] officiating. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery in Morning Sun.

A memorial has been established for various community landscape plantings by the family.

• Social Security Administration Information. ¹² Wallace Broeker; born: 5 August 1911; died: 17 January 1998; last residence: 52653 (Wapello, Louisa, Iowa); state where issued: Iowa

• Estate. ¹³ Trial: 08581; Court Case ID: ESPR015578; Originating County: Louisa; Case Type: estate; Disposition Date: 01/29/1998; Disposition Status: DISPOSED; Status: closed 12/24/1998

Wally married Ruth Rebecca Walker, daughter of Samuel Nathaniel "Sam" Walker and Hattie Mae "Harriett" Moyers, on August 12, 1932 in Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois.^{1 2} (Ruth Rebecca Walker was born on March 28, 1915 in Louisa County, Iowa,^{1 14} died on March 20, 1939 at the Oakdale Sanitarium, Linn County, Iowa ¹ and was buried on March 22, 1939 in the Elmwood Cemetery, Morning Sun, Louisa County, Iowa ^{1 8 15}.) The cause of her death was tuberculosis.

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Announcement: The Morning Sun News-Herald, August 18, 1932, Morning Sun, Louisa County, Iowa. ¹¹ Morning Sun, Iowa, August 15. - Miss Ruth Walker, daughter of S. N. Walker, north of Morning Sun, and Wallace Broeker, son of the late William Broeker, of the Sharon vicinity were united in marriage at Monmouth, Illinois, Friday afternoon, the Reverend G. S. Fulcher, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church, officiating. They were attended by Miss Leota Walker, sister of the bride, and Robert McClure of the Sharon vicinity. Wallace Broeker was graduated from the local high school with the class of 1931. They will make their home on the farm in the Sharon vicinity. Both have many friends in this and in the Sharon vicinity.

• Gravestone Inscription. ⁸ Wally Broeker and both his wives (both named) Ruth are buried at Elmwood Cemetery, Morning Sun, Louisa County, Iowa. The inscription on their gravestone is: "Broeker - Wife Ruth A. (1912-1987), Husband Wallace E. (1911-1998), Wife R. Rebecca (1915-1939)."

Wally next married Ruth Aralene Wheeler, daughter of Edwin G. Wheeler and Lutie S. Rippey, in February 1941 in Davenport, Scott County, Iowa.³ (Ruth Aralene Wheeler was born on February 14, 1912 in Iowa,¹⁶ died on March 18, 1987 ¹⁶ and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery, Morning Sun, Louisa County, Iowa ^{8 17}.)