Royce Allen Walburn

Royce Allen Walburn was born in Popular Bluff Missouri on January 17, 1950. He died at his farm in Mercer Missouri, on May 27th, 2024.
Visitation will be on Friday, May 31st from 4-6- pm at Iles Westover Chapel in Des Moines.
He graduated from Ravanna High School in 1969. After high school, he attended trade school and studied electronics in West Des Moines, IA.
He met Roberta Nelson while going to school and they were married on December 27, 1970. They made their home in Des Moines Iowa, where he worked for Ford Manufacturing, Massey Ferguson Manufacturing, and John Deere Manufacturing, He returned to school and took an electrician course at Creston Community College. He then attended Jackson Community College in Jackson, MN where he studied appliances and refrigeration. While attending school in Minnesota he farmed with his father-in-law Lester Nelson.
After completing courses he returned to Des Moines and worked as a heating and air conditioning service tech. He was employed by Lozier's Heating and Cooling where he had worked for the last twenty-five years. In the 1980s, Royce and Roberta purchased the farm just north of his parents' farm, and in the mid-1990s bought the farm to the south where they started to raise cattle. Royce still enjoyed spending weekends working at the farm, with his cattle and dog Dolly. He very much loved all the dogs he had over the years Bud, Toby, Hunter, Dolly, and also other animals more than you could get him to admit.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Royce R Walburn and Christine Ball Walburn.
He is survived by his wife Roberta, Daughter Rebecca Woodring (Russell), and Sons Jeremy Walburn (Danielle), and Jason Walburn (DeLaine Burken). Seven grandchildren Taylor (Zach) Carr, Andrew Woodring, Kamyra Woodring, Kaitlyn Woodring, Royce Albert Walburn, Alanis Walburn, Ryann Walburn, and 4 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his brothers Doug (Diannah) and Wayne Walburn and numerous nieces and nephews.
Royce will be buried at Lake Belt Cemetery close to the Fenrich/ Nelson Family farm in Martin County Minnesota.
Burial Services will be on Saturday, June 1, 2024 at 1:00 pm.
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