FORT MORGAN, Colo. — Walter Franklin Myers, 93, died on Jan. 8, 2025, at Valley View Villa, Fort Morgan, Colo. He was born on Oct. 1, 1931, in Amarillo, Texas, to Albert Sim Myers and Maggie Jane Franklin Myers.
He was preceded in death by his first wife Jacepine;
sisters Barbara Jane Wright and Ruth Anne Karl; and brothers Sim Myers, Benjamin Myers, Richard Myers; and second wife Kate. He is survived by a son, John Walter Myers (Mary); and daughters Lucinda Diane Stegman (Don), Kimberly Kay Salyers
(Dave), Tracy Neile Myers, Amanda Jane Weakland (Pat); 13 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Walter was a longtime resident of Pawnee Rock, Kan., where he played both football and basketball for Pawnee Rock High School. After graduation in 1949 he attended Texas A&I in Kingsville, Texas, playing quarterback for the freshman football team. He
then spent a semester at the University of Kansas. He married his high school sweetheart Jacepine Diane Smith on Jan. 13th, 1951.
He moved his young family several times, living in Wichita, Kan., Albuquerque and Truth or Consequences, N.M., and El Paso, Texas. He worked in the trucking industry; then In 1970 he purchased and operated a filling station in Cedar Crest, N.M. After moving back to Pawnee Rock he started Myers Steel Co. with his brother Dick, selling structural steel and building bridges for rural counties in Kansas and Colorado. He moved his family to Canon City, Colo. in 1983 to be closer to his work and the mountains.
Walt was an avid outdoorsman and enjoyed fishing and hunting with rifle, shotgun, and bow and arrow. Bowhunting in New Mexico he shot a deer in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains, dragging it over a mile back down the mountain to his car. In Kansas he bagged ducks and geese, providing many a meal of wild game. In New Mexico he took his family rockhunting on weekends for semi-precious gemstones, including onyx, agate, and Apache Tears, obsidian nodules.
Walt was a devoted husband and father and was always there for his family. He will be greatly missed.
Great Bend (Kan.) Tribune, Jan. 30, 2025
