Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, May 10, 1993 TAG: 9305100206
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
OBIT SHRADER, WALTER HOWARD
SHRADER, Walter Howard, 67, of 1304 Newbern Road, Pulaski, died Saturday
night, May 8, 1993 at the VA Medical Center, Salem, Va. He was born in
Pulaski, Virginia, on August 19, 1925, and was the son of the late Thomas
Wilmer Schrader and Bertha Aust Schrader. He was also preceded in death by his
sister, Gladys S. Folden and a brother, Stanley G. Schrader. Mr. Schrader was
a graduate of Pulaski High School, Class of 1943, and he served in the United
States Navy during World War II as a Hospital Corpsman First Class having
served in the Pacific Theatre. He was a retired government employee of the the
Radford Army Ammunition Plant with over 30 years of service. He was a member
of the Anderson Memorial Presbyterian Church, a member of the Pulaski Elks
Lodge, a member of Pulaski VFW Post #1184, a member of the Pulaski American
Legion Post, a member of the Disabled American Veterans, a member of the 40
and 8 Veterans Association, a member of the University of Virginia Alumni
Association, and he was past president of the Pulaski County Heart
Association. Surviving are wife, Mary Craig Schrader, Pulaski; one son, Walter
H. "Rocky" Schrader Jr., Pulaski; one daughter, Susan Anne Schrader, Pulaski;
one sister, Evelyn S. Wilson, Draper; one granddaughter, Anne Elizabeth
Schrader, Pulaski; one grandson, Andrew Elliott Schrader, Pulaski; several
nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at
Stevens Funeral Chapel with Dr. Manson B. Tate officiating. Burial will follow
in Highland Memory Gardens, Dublin, with military graveside rites being
conducted by the Pulaski VFW Post #1184. Visiting will be Tuesday evening at
Stevens at Stevens Funeral Home where the family will receive friends from 7
until 9 p.m. Arrangements by Stevens Funeral Home, Inc., Pulaski, Va.
by CNB