OBIT: James A. WALTERS, 1944, of Bellwood, Blair County, PA

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PLAN FUNERAL FOR BELLWOOD WAR VETERAN

  Members of the combined honor guard of the John M. Anderson post, American 
Legion, and the Colobine Loucks post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Bellwood, 
will conduct final military rites next Wednesday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock in 
the Fuoss mortuary chapel, Bellwood, for T/5 James A. Walters, son of Mr. and 
Mrs. G. W. Walters of 615 North Sixth street, Bellwood, who was killed in 
action in Italy Feb. 24, 1944.
  The body of the soldier will arrive in Tyrone at 5.30 o'clock Monday 
evening and will be met by the combined honor guard and escorted to the Fuoss 
mortuary, where friends will be received after 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon.  
Rev. Clyde Bush, pastor of the Martinsburg Church of the Brethren and former 
pastor of T/5 Walters, will have charge of the funeral services at the chapel 
and the honor guard will conduct the services at the Bellwood cemetery.
  James A. Walters enlisted in the army June 11, 1942, and went overseas in 
1943.  During his entire service he had only one furlough at home and that 
was for 11 hours.  He received his training at Fort Bragg, N.C., Camp Hill, 
Va., and Camp Sutton, N.C., from where he was sent overseas, going first to 
Africa and then to Italy where he was killed while fighting with Gen. Mark 
Clark's 5th army while with the quartermaster corps.
  He was the son of George Wesley and Jennie E. (Koontz) Walters and was born 
at Curryville Feb. 21, 1923.  The family moved in 1928 to Bellwood where he 
attended the public schools and prior to enlistment was employed at 
Woodhall's store.  He was a member of the Bellwood Church of the Brethren 
where special memorial services were held for him in June, 1944.
  Surviving are the parents and a brother, David, and a sister, Isabelle, at 
home; a half-brother, Charles Walters of Orbisonia, and three half-sisters, 
Mrs. P. W. Stephens of Buffalo, N.Y., Mrs. J. A. Lynch, jr., of Chicago and 
Mrs. Catherine Williams.  The maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George 
Rufus Koontz of Hopewell, also survive.

Altoona Mirror, Friday, July 23, 1948, pages 1, 12