Ivon Walton

Clara Ivon Walton, age 90, passed from this life on Tuesday, April 14th 2015. Ivon, as she was known to her family and friends, dealt optimistically with life, its joys and its struggles. She was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico on May 13th, 1924, the second of three children to parents Howard Raymond and Rilla Jane McAuley. Ivon, along with older sister Ina and younger sister Rubye, grew up during the Great Depression, a time of strife for most Americans and the McAuley family was no different. Like most Depression-era children, Ina, Ivon, and Rubye were happy in their lives at a time when the glass was often less than half full; the joy of sharing a Pepsi three ways with her sisters and sitting around the dining table pouring over the new store catalogue, clipping out each sister's dream clothes were cherished memories for her.

As a teen Ivon had to work to help support her parents and then as an adult to support her two children Donna and Randell. During World War II, Ivon worked in an aircraft plant in Los Angeles, California, proudly serving her country during its most urgent time of need. She gradually found her way into the world of banking and never looked back. Ivon Walton worked for three different banks in Carlsbad and Hobbs in a career that spanned nearly 47 years. She received several banking awards and certificates, but the one of which she was proudest was her Twenty-Five Year Banker's Award for Service to First National Bank and Moncor Bank, formally of Hobbs.

Ivon Walton was preceded in death by her parents, Howard and Rilla McAuley, her youngest sister Rubye Cooper, and her husband, Siegel Allen Walton. She is survived by her children, Donna Carleton and her husband Lee of Odessa, Texas, Randell Walton and his wife Michele of Hobbs, New Mexico, her oldest sister Ina Witherspoon of Hot Springs, Arkansas, her granddaughters Kelly Rae Koonsman and her husband Gabe of Hico, Texas, and Kristy McDaris and her husband Matt of Trophy Club, Texas, and her only great-grandchild, Gunnar Raelan McDaris, in addition to numerous cousins, nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.

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