Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, May 11, 1993 TAG: 9305110488
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
OBIT SCHRADER, WALTER HOWARD
SCHRADER, Walter Howard, 67, of 1304 Newbern Road, Pulaski, died Saturday
night, May 8, 1993, at the VA Medical Center, Salem. He was born in Pulaski,
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 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 his 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 at Stevens
Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m.
Arrangements by Stevens Funeral Home, Inc., Pulaski.
by CNB