www.graufuneralhomes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\nVisitation will be from 4-8 pm, Sunday, July 16, 2017 at Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Elkader, Iowa with a one hour visitation before mass at the church on Monday.<\/p>\n
Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 am, Monday July 17, 2017 at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Elkader Iowa with Rev. Paul R. Peters as the Celebrant.<\/p>\n
Burial will follow at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Elkader, Iowa.<\/p>\n
Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Elkader, Iowa is helping the family with arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Walter Leo Whittle, age 89, passed over to the father on Monday, July 10, 2017, at Madonna Towers in Rochester, MN. \u00a0He lived at Shorewood Senior Living in Rochester for the past eight years where he enjoyed many new friends. \u00a0He was the eldest child of nine children born to Margaret (Holtz) and Ambrose Whittle. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-whittle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3213,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions\/3213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Walter Leo Whittle, age 89, passed over to the father on Monday, July 10, 2017, at Madonna Towers in Rochester, MN. \u00a0He lived at Shorewood Senior Living in Rochester for the past eight years where he enjoyed many new friends. \u00a0He was the eldest child of nine children born to Margaret (Holtz) and Ambrose Whittle. \u00a0He was born near Littleport, Iowa, on May 26, 1928, where he lived with his family on a number of farms in the area. \u00a0He attended country school and St. Joseph’s high school. \u00a0He enjoyed working on the farm helping his Dad and brothers.<\/p>\n