Memorial Service for Howard Arnold Walter

11/24/1918 |

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A memorial service was held in honor of Howard Arnold Walter at the chapel of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church this evening.

Helen C. Gross read three appreciations of Walter: one of her own, one from a Princeton classmate, and one from an intimate friend
Duncan McDonald spoke of Walter as a student
Guy Beardsley paid tribute as a friend
John W. Wetzel spoke of Walter as a poet

A collection of the tributes was given to him, to forward to Walter’s wife in India

Helen Gross was Charles E. Gross’s daughter.
Duncan McDonald, also MacDonald or Macdonald, taught Walter in preparation for his mission in India.
John Wetzel was the assistant pastor at the church.
Walter was buried in Lahore.

A proposal to memorialize Walter was heard at the annual meeting of the Asylum Hill Congregational Society on February 6, 1919.

Unattributed, “Memorial Service to Rev. H. A. Walters,” Hartford Courant, November 25, 1918, page 5.

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