11/13/1910 - 5/5/2008
Jay E. Walter, 97, Berne, died at 7:05 p.m. Monday in Adams Memorial
Hospital.
He was born on November 13, 1910, in New Corydon to Charles A.
and Nellie Switzer
Walter.
He married Edith A. Stolz on June 23, 1946;
she survives.
He was a self-employed painting and wallpapering
decorator who was a member of
Redeemer Lutheran Church in Bryant. He was
a member of the Bryant Senior Citizens,
and the Berne Senior Citizens.
During World War II, Mr. Walter served in the U.S. Army from 1942-45 in
Africa and
Sicily.
Other survivors are a son, Donald J. Walter of
Geneva; a daughter, Mrs. Robert (Sara)
Kessing of Indianapolis; two
sisters, Josephine Baker of Berne and Jesteene E. Michael of
Bryant; and
three grandchildren. A brother is deceased.
Funeral services will be
held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Redeemer Lutheran Church,
with burial in
Mt. Zion Cemetery at Jay County.
Visiting hours are until 8 p.m.
today in Swiss Village Retirement Community at Berne.
Preferred memorials
are to the church.
Funeral arrangements were by Downing and Glancy
Funeral Home, Geneva.
Decatur Daily Democrat (IN) - Wednesday, May 7,
2008
Contributed by Jane Edson
Buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery