Joseph Louis Wachter^{[1, 2]}

1921 - 2010  (89 years)

• Name	Joseph Louis Wachter
  Born	18 Apr 1921
  Gender	Male
  Died	5 Oct 2010	Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee   [3]
  Buried	11 Oct 2010	Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery, Lyons View, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee   [4]
  Person ID	I399629	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	3 Jun 2015

  
  

  Father	Joseph Wachter,   d. Bef 5 Oct 2010
  Mother	Rose,   d. Bef 5 Oct 2010
  Family ID	F158472	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Dorothy Elizabeth Walker,   b. 21 Apr 1922,   d. 18 Mar 2001, Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee  (Age 78 years)
  Married	Abt 1947
  Family ID	F158464	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Died - 5 Oct 2010 - Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee Buried - 11 Oct 2010 - Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery, Lyons View, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S25] Smith Mortuary Company, www.smithmortuary.com, 31 May 2015. Charles Andrew Walker obituary [S4] Knoxville News-Sentinel (Tennessee), 19 Mar 2001. Dorothy Elizabeth Wachter obituary [S4] Knoxville News-Sentinel (Tennessee), 11 Oct 2010. WACHTER, MSGT JOSEPH LOUIS age 89, of Maryville, died Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at Blount Memorial Hospital. Joe was a retired Master Sergeant from the United States Air Force, serving in both World War II and the Korean Conflict. Joe was very proud of his military service and loved his country with a burning passion. He was a very unique, but caring person with a giving, loving heart, and always a gentleman. Perhaps the best description of Joe was "He makes friends and holds them." He was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy Walker Wachter ; parents, Joseph and Rose Wachter ; and sister, Mildred R. Wachter . Survivors include his special friend, Juanita Galyon of Maryville; foster son, Juan Richard Diaz of Chicago, IL; cousins, Monsignor Joseph Stoerlein of Absecon, NJ; Alma Houder of Southampton, PA; brothers-in-law, Ira, Charlie, and Buck Walker; and many loving neighbors and friends. Graveside services will be 1:30 P.M., Monday, October 11, 2010 at the Tennessee State Veteran's Cemetery, 5901 Lyons View Pike, Knoxville, with Full Military Honors. Online condolences may be emailed to dotsonfh@yahoo.com. Arrangements by Dotson Funeral Home, Maryville/Seymour. (865-984-5959) [S147] Find a Grave, (Memorial: 111802103).