This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#268044) Walter Sheetz <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=268044> AUTHOR: Mari Nielsen - DATE: 2/27/2010 at 01:24:45 Surnames: SHEETZ,DRESCHER,SHANKS,BRIDGEFORT WALTER SHEETZ Wilton – Walter E. Sheetz, 90, died Sunday at Lutheran Homes, Muscatine. Services are Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Lacock Funeral Home, Wilton, with the Rev. Telford Dindinger officiating. Visitation is Tuesday from 3-8 p.m. at the funeral home where a Masonic service will be at 8 o’clock. Burial will be in the Melpine Cemetery, Sweetland Township, rural Muscatine. A memorial has been established at the funeral home. Mr. Sheetz was born Sept. 21, 1895 in Muscatine County, a son of John and Catherine Sheetz. He married Irene Drescher on Dec. 10, 1919 in Muscatine County. He was an Army veteran of World War I and a member of the Veterans of World War I, the Wilton Masonic Lodge, the American Legion, The Wilton Presbyterian Church and the Muscatine County Farm Bureau. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Frank (Dorothy) Shanks, Muscatine; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and one sister, Ellie Bridgefort, Tipton. He was preceded in death by his wife in 1976, two sons, two brothers and one sister. Source: newspaper clipping with handwritten death date of April 6, 1986