A memorial service was held Saturday, Dec. 28, at the Campbell-Aman Funeral Home for Walter George, 67, of Blair, who died Dec. 23, 1996, in Blair.

Walter George was born April 23, 1929, in Gudensberg, Germany to Margarete nee Dott and Karl George. The youngest of five children, he attended school in nearby Kassel, Germany, and then attended the Universities of Mainz, Heidelberg and Marburg.

In 1954, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He received a Master of Arts degree in political science in 1956.

He married Ann Harms, whom he met at the University on Aug. 26, 1955. They taught for a year at Luther Junior College in Wahoo, Nebr. and then spent three years in Heidelberg, where he attended the university there.

In 1960, they returned to the United States and lived in Durham, NC where he studied at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and taught German at St. Mary’s Junior College in Raleigh.

He taught German and political science at Dana College from 1966-1974.

In the early 1970s, he was elected to Blair’s City Council. In 1974, he was elected to represent Nebraska’s 16th District in the Unicameral. He served in the Unicameral until 1980, when he resigned to take the assignment of Director of the European Office of the Great Plains Regional Commission, which was based in Frankfurt, Germany.

He subsequently served as Director of the European Office of the State of Florida, again in Frankfurt. Upon returning to the United States in 1987, he represented the German State of the Saarland in the United States for a year, with offices in Atlanta, Georgia.

He retired in Blair where he lived until his death.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his brother, Herbert and a sister, Annamarie.

He is survived by his sons and daughter-in-law, Stephen and Nancy George, Spearfish, SD, and Eric of Kassel, Germany; their mother, Ann George; sisters and brother-in-law, Elizabeth and Bill Tresh of Brooklyn, NY and Irmgaard George of Gudensberg, Germany; two nieces and a nephew and cousin.

Memorials are suggested to Dana College.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.