MISSOULA-- WALTER L. "WALT" EVJEN, 72, PASSED AWAY AT ST. PATRICK HOSPITAL ON WEDNESDAY APRIL 23, 1997.
HE WAS BORN IN KALISPELL ON FEB. 21, 1925, THE SON OF SYLVIA AND MARTIN EVJEN.
DURING WORLD WAR 2, WALT SERVED IN THE US. ARMY AS A PARATROOPER IN SEVERAL THEATERS OF OPERATION. FOLLOWING A HONORABLE DISCHARGE, HE MARRIED ANGELINE LOREN IN MISSOULA ON JUNE 1, 1946. HE RETIRED FROM THE FOREST SERVICE 20 YEARS AGO AS A RADIO TECHNICIAN.
HIS FAMILY INCLUDES THREE DAUGHTER, TONYA BARE AND HER HUSBAND MICHAEL OF FRENCHTOWN, SONALEA HORNEY AND HER HUSBAND CRAIG OF EMERADO, N.D. AND SHANA PHILLIPS OF LAKESIDE, CALIF. :FIVE GRANDCHILDREN, SKEE EVJEN, BRIANNA AND TRAVIS HORNEY, KELEN DRAKE AND RORY CLAYTON; THREE SISTERS AND TWO BROTHERS, ELIZABETH FLEMMING OF MISSOULA, SYLVIA ZUNICK OF KALISPELL, DARRELL EVJEN OF ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., BEA TARP OF EVERETT, WA., AND ELEANOR KING OF DALLAS, ORE.
WALT WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS WIFE IN 1986, TWO BROTHER AND ONE SISTER.
VIEWING WILL BE AT SQUIRE SIMMONS & CARR FUNERAL HOME 1-6 PM. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, AND 9-10 AM. ON SUNDAY.
SERVICES WILL BE 11 AM. MONDAY AT THE FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL WITH THE REV. DAVID OPHUS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE FOLLOW AT THE MISSOULA CEMETERY.
PALLBEARERS WILL BE SKEE EVJEN, MICHEAL BAFE, CRAIG HORNEY, BUD WILCOX, BILL JONES, AND FLOYD HEJTMANCK.
THE FAMILY SUGGEST MEMORIALS TO THE DONORS CHOICE.
MISSOULA-- WALTER L. "WALT" EVJEN, 72, PASSED AWAY AT ST. PATRICK HOSPITAL ON WEDNESDAY APRIL 23, 1997.
HE WAS BORN IN KALISPELL ON FEB. 21, 1925, THE SON OF SYLVIA AND MARTIN EVJEN.
DURING WORLD WAR 2, WALT SERVED IN THE US. ARMY AS A PARATROOPER IN SEVERAL THEATERS OF OPERATION. FOLLOWING A HONORABLE DISCHARGE, HE MARRIED ANGELINE LOREN IN MISSOULA ON JUNE 1, 1946. HE RETIRED FROM THE FOREST SERVICE 20 YEARS AGO AS A RADIO TECHNICIAN.
HIS FAMILY INCLUDES THREE DAUGHTER, TONYA BARE AND HER HUSBAND MICHAEL OF FRENCHTOWN, SONALEA HORNEY AND HER HUSBAND CRAIG OF EMERADO, N.D. AND SHANA PHILLIPS OF LAKESIDE, CALIF. :FIVE GRANDCHILDREN, SKEE EVJEN, BRIANNA AND TRAVIS HORNEY, KELEN DRAKE AND RORY CLAYTON; THREE SISTERS AND TWO BROTHERS, ELIZABETH FLEMMING OF MISSOULA, SYLVIA ZUNICK OF KALISPELL, DARRELL EVJEN OF ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., BEA TARP OF EVERETT, WA., AND ELEANOR KING OF DALLAS, ORE.
WALT WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS WIFE IN 1986, TWO BROTHER AND ONE SISTER.
VIEWING WILL BE AT SQUIRE SIMMONS & CARR FUNERAL HOME 1-6 PM. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, AND 9-10 AM. ON SUNDAY.
SERVICES WILL BE 11 AM. MONDAY AT THE FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL WITH THE REV. DAVID OPHUS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE FOLLOW AT THE MISSOULA CEMETERY.
PALLBEARERS WILL BE SKEE EVJEN, MICHEAL BAFE, CRAIG HORNEY, BUD WILCOX, BILL JONES, AND FLOYD HEJTMANCK.
THE FAMILY SUGGEST MEMORIALS TO THE DONORS CHOICE.
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