Walter Dockter, 84, of Wing, died Aug. 5, 2001, in a Bismarck care center. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Wing, with the Rev. Muriel Lippert-Schauer officiating. Burial will be in Wing Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Eastgate Funeral Service, Bismarck, and will continue for one hour prior to services at the church. Walter was born July 11, 1917, at Drake, the son of John and Katherine (Gerring) Dockter. He grew up on the family farm in Hurdsfield. In the 1930s he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He lived for a brief time in Montana before returning to the family farm. In 1941, Walter married Bertha Vollmer at Steele. They farmed in Hurdsfield and during the summers he would shear sheep until the fall of 1946, when they moved to Wing. He worked for various farmers in the Wing area. He also drove a bulk fuel truck for Farmers Union Oil Company for 20 years. Walter enjoyed fishing, traveling, gardening, dancing and lawn work. He is survived by his wife, Bertha; two daughters and sons-in-law, Dorothy and Ted DeWall, Bismarck, and Gloria and Don Ely, Springtown, Texas; three sons and daughters-in-law, Ronald and Joan Dockter and Randy and Renea Dockter, all of Bismarck, and Marvin and Carlene Dockter, Baldwin; 15 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; three sisters and two brothers-in-law, Ida Shelton, Seattle, Wash., Ella and Albert Weippert, Pueblo, Colo., and Viola and Bill Grauman, Yakima, Wash.; and one brother and sister-in-law, Rueben and Dixie Dockter, Pueblo, Colo. He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Art Dockter; and two sisters, Bertha Hoff and Frieda Mahe. NOTE: DOCKTERs were Glueckstalers... ; <many> early VOLLMER records found in GrossLiebental