Background
Bixby, Walter Edwin was born on August 20, 1896 in Champaign, Illinois, United States. Son of Walter Albert and Lizzie (Holmes) Bixby.
Bixby, Walter Edwin was born on August 20, 1896 in Champaign, Illinois, United States. Son of Walter Albert and Lizzie (Holmes) Bixby.
Student Culver (Indiana) Military Academy, 1914-1915, Drury College, U. Missouri. Doctor of Laws, Drury College, 1967.
Field timekeeper Liquified Petroleum Gas Company of Oklahoma, Tulsa, 1921-1923. Clerk Kansas City Life Insurance Company (Missouri), 1923-1924, assistant secretary, 1924-1937, executive vice president, 1937-1939, president, 1939-1964, Chairman of the Board, from 1964. Past Life Insurance Medical Research Fund.
Past president American Life Convention.
Governor American Royal. Past member board directors Salvation Army, Boy Scouts American, Jackson County Chapter American Red Cross.
Past member Kansas City Crime Commission. Trustee Midwest Research Institute, past trustee U. Missouri at Kansas City.
Member Institute Life Insurance (past director), Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Clubs: Kansas City, University, Country, River, Casper (Wyoming) Tavern (Chicago.
Married Angeline I. Reynolds, April. Married second, Louise T. Bogart, April. Children: Joseph Reynolds, Walter Edwin.
