Graveside service: 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 30, Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation: Noon-2 p.m. Thursday, April 30, Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home.

AMES, Iowa — Walter Chatfield, 75, Ames, died Sunday, April 26, 2009, at Green Hills Health Care Center in Ames. 

Services in Ames include a visitation from 4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29, at the Grandon Funeral and Cremation Care, 414 Lincoln Way, with a 7 p.m. funeral service at Grandon Funeral and Cremation Care, Wednesday evening. 

Memorials may be directed to the Walter Chatfield Scholarship at Iowa State University or the Alzheimer’s Association Greater Iowa Chapter.  Online condolences  may be left at www.wittichfuneralhome.com.

Mr. Chatfield was born Dec. 30, 1933, on a farm near Muscatine, the son of Frederick and Anna Irwin Chatfield. 

He graduated from Muscatine High School.  He received his bachelor’s  from Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill.; he then received a master’s from the University of Iowa; and did graduate work at Ohio State University. 

He was a member of Iowa Lodge No.2 A.F. & A.M. in Muscatine. 

He was professor emeritus of Iowa State University in the College of liberal Arts and sciences, where he taught French and Spanish.  He also worked in the Department of Education at Iowa State University overseeing student teachers across Iowa.

He is survived by his wife, Pat Chatfield of Ames; and nieces and nephews, Lynn Kelly, Kirk Chatfield, Ellyn Shoppa, and Rebecca Phillips, all of Muscatine, and Amanda Dacy of Grandview.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Anna Lucille Zorn and a brother, Rolland Frederick Chatfield.