Walter

David L. Walter Jr., 85, of 46 Ridgview Drive, Rimersburg, died Saturday at his home.

Born May 6, 1929, in Kissinger Mills, Pa., he was the son of David L. Sr. and Velma A. Ramsey Walter.

Junior was educated in Rimersburg and then proudly served his country in the Korean War with the 181st Signal Corp of the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1953.

He was married in Erie, Pa., April 26, 1953, to Roseann E. Duncan, and she survives in Rimersburg.

Junior was a self-employed carpenter most of his life, and he also worked 18 years at the former Pullman-Standard Co. in Butler before it closed.

A Protestant, Junior was a lifetime member of both the VFW Post 7132 and the Shearer-Shick Post 454 American Legion Post, both of Rimersburg, with which he acted as a chaplain and presenter during many military funerals over the years. He was a member of the NRA, enjoyed hunting, fishing and woodworking.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters and their husbands; Dianne and Robert Pause of Tallahassee, Fla., and Wendy and David Hutchings of Eagle River, Alaska; five grandchildren; Russell Pause and his wife, Carole, Brandi Barnhouse and her husband, Scott, Lindsay Pause, Kirby Hutchings and Eryn Hutchings; and five great-grandchildren, Aaron, Kenneth and Greg Barnhouse and Robert and Samantha Pause.

WALTER — The family of David L. Walter Jr., who died Saturday, April 25, 2015, will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Varner Funeral Home of Rimersburg, 583 Main St., Rimersburg.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home with the Rev. Mark Deeter, pastor of the Wildcat Allegheny Methodist Church near Rimersburg, officiating.

Inurnment will follow in the Duncan Cemetery in Armstrong County.

Full military honors will be accorded by the ceremonial squads of the Rimersburg VFW and American Legion.

The family suggests memorials be made to the Rimersburg Veterans Park and Museum, the Clarion Cancer Center or the Eccles-Lesher Memorial Library in Rimersburg.

Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.varnerfuneralhome.com.