Walter A. Gessner
Community Leader
Notes:
• Co-Chairman, Huntsville Manpower Inventory Program, 1970; President, Personnel and Industrial Relations Management Association, 1968; Board Member, Drake Technical Trade School, 1969-1971. Gibson, Dr, Thomas S. - Chairman, Y.M.C.A., 1953-1954; Chairman, UGF, 1949; State Chairman, Alabama Cancer Society; President, Alabama Optometry Association, 1945; Member, Alabama State Board of Optometry; President, Huntsville Rotary Club, 1946; President, Chamber of Commerce, 1947; Alabama Optometrist of the Year, 1965, First Vice President, Alabama Optometric Assn., 1942-43. - Record
• Obituary for his wife:
H. Lee Gessner, 69, of Huntsville died Wednesday at her home. The memorial service will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Faith Presbyterian Church with Frank Broyles officiating.
Laughlin Service Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Gessner had been a volunteer at Huntsville Hospital and has received the Clara Barton Award.
Survivors include her husband, Walter Gessner of Huntsville; two daughters, Laura Kelly of San Antonio, Texas, and Sherry Snow of Birmingham; one brother, Hank Bax of Springhill, Fla.; and two grandchildren. - Obit Collection
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| Born: | January 25, 1927, New York |
| Died: | February 2, 2001, Madison County, Alabama |
Notes:
• Co-Chairman, Huntsville Manpower Inventory Program, 1970; President, Personnel and Industrial Relations Management Association, 1968; Board Member, Drake Technical Trade School, 1969-1971. Gibson, Dr, Thomas S. - Chairman, Y.M.C.A., 1953-1954; Chairman, UGF, 1949; State Chairman, Alabama Cancer Society; President, Alabama Optometry Association, 1945; Member, Alabama State Board of Optometry; President, Huntsville Rotary Club, 1946; President, Chamber of Commerce, 1947; Alabama Optometrist of the Year, 1965, First Vice President, Alabama Optometric Assn., 1942-43. - Record
• Obituary for his wife:
H. Lee Gessner, 69, of Huntsville died Wednesday at her home. The memorial service will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Faith Presbyterian Church with Frank Broyles officiating.
Laughlin Service Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Gessner had been a volunteer at Huntsville Hospital and has received the Clara Barton Award.
Survivors include her husband, Walter Gessner of Huntsville; two daughters, Laura Kelly of San Antonio, Texas, and Sherry Snow of Birmingham; one brother, Hank Bax of Springhill, Fla.; and two grandchildren. - Obit Collection
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• Obit Collection - Obituary for H. Lee Gessner, Walter's wife posted on 6/24/99.
• Record - A Dream Come True: The Story of Madison County and Incidentally of Alabama and the United States, Volume II, by James Record, 1978.
• Social Security Death Index - Page viewed through an Ancestry.com paid subscription. (Originally found at http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=Walter&gsln=Gessner&msydy=1927&msddy=2001&msrpn__ftp=Huntsville%2c+Madison%2c+Alabama%2c+USA&msrpn=26828&msrpn_PInfo=8-%7c0%7c1652393%7c0%7c2%7c3246%7c3%7c0%7c1851%7c26828%7c0%7c&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&uidh=61g&cp=0&mssng0=Lee&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=21963701&recoff=12+13&db=ssdi&indiv=1&ml_rpos=4.)
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