Uncle Walter

Today my Aunt Loretha sent me the bulletin and a copy of the message at my Uncle Walter's funeral. I don't know who preached the message, but humor me while I share just a bit of it!

Ask anyone who knew him or worked with him, and they will agree: he was a ROLE MODEL..

Ask anyone who knew him or worked with him, and they will agree: his VISION was large enough to include the whole world....

Ask anyone who knew or worked with him, and they will agree: Walt was FAITHFUL in serving the church, throughout his lifetime.

As anyone who knew him and they will agree: Walt had a unique SENSE OF HUMOR...

If you look up, in his garage today -- you will find what he called "the gizmo." This was a chain-reaction alarm clock, he constructed! It worked something like this: the alarm clock goes off, turning alarm knob in back, reels in a cable, attached to an arm with wooden match sticks. This would cause the match sticks to rub against sandpaper and light the fuse of a fire cracker, which had a string which released an arm that hit another arm, which hit a rubber band that moved another arm, which hit a block which opened a hopper filled with corn. The corn would drop into a bucket which had a string attached to a hatchet, which cut the string attached to an arm with a boxing glove, that hit a bucket that was filled with either water, or confetti--tip it, and finally, the water or confetti would drop on the sleeping person's head!

That was Walt, with a twinkle in his eye.

And that was just ONE of his many fun inventions!

No wonder we miss him!