Funeral services set for Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker

Mayor Dennis Walaker
Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker responds to a reporter's question following the daily flood briefing on Thursday, March 18, 2010, at Fargo City Hall.
Ann Arbor Miller / MPR News 2010

Funeral services have been set for three-term Fargo mayor and longtime public works director Dennis Walaker.

Fargo mayor remembered as flood folk hero

Visitation is scheduled for Saturday from 7-9 p.m. at Boulger Funeral Home in Fargo. Visitation will continue Sunday at 9 a.m. at Reineke Fine Arts Center on the North Dakota State University campus before the funeral service there at 10 a.m.

The 73-year-old Walaker died Tuesday in his home, several months after he was diagnosed with kidney cancer. He told city employees that he was returning to work this week after spending a couple of days in the hospital for an adverse reaction to chemotherapy.

He was the face of several successful flood fights and a fierce promoter of a planned Red River diversion project that would end the almost yearly spring sandbagging efforts.

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