Louis E. Walls
Sept. 24, 1934-April 6, 2008
By Staff
Louis E. Walls, 73, of East River Road, Buchanan, and formerly of Woodruff Street, Niles, died Sunday, April 6, 2008, at Memorial Hospital, South Bend, Ind., following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 10, at halbritter Funeral Home, Niles, with the Rev. Carl W. Bassett of Saint Paul's Lutheran Church, officiating.
Friends may call beginning at 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home, where a flag presentation and Taps will follow the service by the American Legion Post No. 26, Niles.
Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles.
He was born on Sept. 24, 1934, in Monette, Ark. to Newt Walls and Iva Pennington.
Walls graduated in 1952, from Central High School in Caraway, Ark. He had lived in Niles since 1953, moving to Buchanan in 2006.
He retired in 1996, after 46 years of service to Simplicity Pattern Company in Niles.
He attended Saint Paul's Lutheran Church in Niles.
Walls was a veteran of the Korean Conflict, having served in the United States Army. He was a member of the American Legion Post No. 26, V.F.W. Post No. 4025 and the Fraternal Order of Eagles No. 2094, all of Niles.
He enjoyed hunting, fishing and NASCAR auto racing.
On Aug. 17, 1991, in Niles, he married June M. (Martin) Cramer Walls, who died in 2005.
He was also preceded in death by three brothers, Lloyd Walls, Warren Walls and William Walls.
Surviving family include two sons, Daryl (Donna) Walls of Buchanan and Randy (Gina) Walls of LaPorte, Ind.; two daughters, Terri (Darren) Jones of Niles and Nicole (Ron) Lengerich of Elkhart, Ind.; two step-daughters, Renee Bolen of Niles and Roxi (Bill) Rudlaff of Elkhart, Ind.; a step-son, John Brittin of Niles; 14 grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; a sister, Beatrice Allen of Niles and a brother, K. Aaron Walls of Dundee, Ill.
Memorials may be made to Hospice at Home or the American Cancer Society.
Arrangements were by Halbritter Funeral Home in Niles.