CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Dr. Walter W. Davidson, 1706 Fremont, professor of education at Southeast Missouri State University since 1968, died Monday, Dec. 10, 1990, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was 61 years old.
Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Grace United Methodist Church. The Rev. Ernest Swartz will officiate, with burial in Fairmount Cemetery.
Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 4-8 p.m. today.
Davidson was born Aug. 30, 1929, in Toledo, Ohio, son of Arthur T. and Lillian Witte Davidson. He and the former Clara M. Ketner were married Dec. 22, 1956, in Kirkersville, Ohio.
He received a master's degree in education from Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 1955. He was a teacher and coach five years at schools in Ohio, and from 1958-68 he was counselor and director of guidance at Fostoria, Ohio, schools.
Davidson was a member of various guidance and counselor associations. He held offices and served on committees in the Ohio School Counselors Association, Ohio Personnel and Guidance Association, Missouri Guidance Association, Missouri Personnel and Guidance Association, Southeast Missouri District Guidance Association, Midwest Region Personnel and Guidance Association, and American Personnel and Guidance Association.
During his time at Southeast University, he served on the faculty senate three years, served two terms with the College of Education Council, was chairperson of Promotion and Tenure Policies Committee and the Operational Budget Committee, and was coordinator of the Guidance and Counseling Program.
Davidson also served as Southeast Missouri consultant for the Missouri View Program for several schools and their faculties. He conducted a training program for Charleston High School faculty on infusing career education strategies in the high school curriculum.
Davidson served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was a member of Grace Church, Kiwanis Club, Sheltered Workshop, and Cape Girardeau Associates for Retarded Citizens.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Walter Davidson of Polk, Karl Davidson of Cape, and a brother, Tom Davidson of Pemberville, Ohio.
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