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Obituary- Stalker, Francis 2

Francis Stalker
EL PASO, Texas — Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Center Chapel No. 1 in Fort Bliss, Texas, for Francis Orville Stalker, 84, El Paso. He died Tuesday, Oct. 3 2000, at an El Paso hospital.

Mr. Stalker was a dentist and had maintained a private practice in Topeka, Kan., from 1946 to 1949. He later served in the Army Dental Corps and his career culminated at Fort Bliss, where he was chief of oral surgery at William Beaumont Army Hospital until he retired in 1970. He received the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct when he retired at the rank of full colonel. He also had been a firefighter in Topeka from 1938 to 1943.

He was born Nov. 30,1915, in Saint Clere, Kan., the son of Winfred Arthur and Frances Anna Ward Stalker. He was raised in Rossville, Kan., and he graduated from Washburn Municipal University of Topeka. He earned a doctor of dental surgery degree at the University of Kansas City, Mo.

He married Kathleen Pelffrey on April 8,1939. She preceded him in death in 1997,

Survivors include two sons, Roger Lynn Stalker, in Florida, and Orville Kent Stalker, Lubbock, Texas: a sister, Elizabeth Lauck, Woodland, Calif.; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Burial will be in Fort Bliss National Cemetery.


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