Joseph Walter

Services for Joseph M. Walter Jr., 97, who died March 25 at Parkside Homes in Hillsboro, will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Ebenfeld Mennonite Brethren Church, rural Hillsboro.

Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Born Jan. 21, 1927, in Carpenter, South Dakota to Joseph M. Walter Sr. and Susie Hofer Walter, he married Janette Rose Bergen in Goltry, Oklahoma.

Survivors include his wife of Hillsboro; sons Roland Walter of Malaga, Spain, and Joseph Walter III of Farmington, New Mexico; daughters Patty Den Hartog of McPherson, Ruthie Anderson of Overland Park, and Debbie Shoberg of Wheaton, Illinois; sisters Lavonne Walter and Naomi Rempe; 15 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren.

A granddaughter preceded him in death.