Dr. Francis Orville Stalker

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Obituary- Stalker, Francis 1

Francis O. Stalker
Francis Orville Stalker, 84, El Paso, TX, died Tuesday, October 3, 2000, at William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Fort Bliss, TX.

He was born November 30, 1915, in St Clere, the youngest of five children of Winfred Arthur and Frances Anna Ward Stalker. He was reared in Rossville and graduated from Rossville Rural High School in 1934. He graduated from Washburn University, Topeka, with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and from the University of Kansas City (MO) with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree.

From 1938 to 1943, he was a member of the Topeka Fire Department. Upon completion of his dental training, he entered private practice in Topeka with his brother, Dr. Clinton L. Stalker, Sr. in 1946, then accepted a commission as an officer of the U.S. Army Dental Corps in 1949. Mr. Stalker’s military service took him and his family to assignments at Frankfurt and Landstuhl, Germany; Vicenza, Italy; Kansas City, MO; Fort Sam Houston, TX; Fort Knox, KY; and Fort Lewis, WA. His career culminated at Fort Bliss, TX, with an assignment at William Beaumont Army Hospital as Chief of Oral Surgery in 1968. He received the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct upon his retirement as a full colonel in the "Dental Corps in 1970. He retired with his wife to El Paso, where they lived for the next 30 years.

He married his childhood sweetheart, Kathleen Pelfrey, on April 8, 1939, and celebrated 56 years of marriage before she died in 1997.

Survivors include two sons, Roger Lynn Stalker, Mary Esther, FL, and Orville Kent Stalker, Lubbock, TX; a sister, Elizabeth Lauck, Woodland, CA; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

A memorial service was held at 2 p.m. Friday at Center Chapel No. 1 in Fort Bliss, TX. Burial was in Fort Bliss National Cemetery.

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