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  2. Frank John Walter: Birth: 10 Nov 1951 in Braddock, Allegheny, PA, USA. Death: 13 Jun 1971 in Norristown, Montgomery, PA, USA

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Notes
a. Note:   From Virginia Mae Wise: Worked as an arc welder at American Chain and Cable Co. in Braddock. Loved to play pinochle. Died of a coronary thrombosis at 12:30 AM on Wednesday, 23 Nov 1955. From Mary Grace Walter in a phone call with Lucas Joseph Walter on 18 April 2009: Luke loved to work on his Dad's car (she thinks it was a Ford), keeping it in good shape and washing and waxing it. None of the children had cars, so sometimes their Dad would ask them if they'd like to take it for a drive and would loan it to them for the day or evening. From Mary Grace Walter in a telephone conversation with Lucas Joseph Walter, Jr. on 4 May 2009: The day my Dad died, he had gone upstairs to the bedroom to get ready for bed, and fell so hard on the bed that my Mom heard it. My Mom went upstairs and said "You really fell hard"--but he was dead. What I remember from that day is the ambulance crew coming and carrying a stretcher and my Mom keeping us boys at the top of the hallway staircase away from the activity downstairs. According to Elmer Walter in a phone conversation with Lucas Joseph Walter, Jr. on 18 June 2009: During the war Lucas Walter Sr.'s job in the Pacific Theater was loading cameras and film on bombers. Elmer does not know if he ever flew on the airplanes; after the war, he would not talk about the war with anyone except his dad. After the war and back in Pennsylvania, Lucas had a post-traumatic stress attack when he thought he was at Pearl Harbor and thought the Japs were attacking. He dragged his wife Virginia under the bed by the hair. The Veteran's Administration came and took him to the VA hospital for treatment. His brother Frank had several such post-traumatic stress breakdowns, but this is the only one Elmer knows about that Lucas suffered. In general, though, Elmer said that Lucas was big and strapping (like his Dad), was never sick, and never complained about anything. He went over to his Dad's house almost every evening to play cards or watch the fights on TV, and that's why it was so unusual that, on the day he died, he didn't come over because he had "indigestion". He died at 12:30 AM that night--on his Dad's 60th birthday. In a phone call on 30 Jun 2009 between Edna Marie Protheroe and Lucas Joseph Walter, Jr: I asked my Aunt Marie if she knew any of the details about my Dad's time at Crile Army Hospital in Cleveland. She said he broke his arm falling off an airplane wing--but that's the only time she remembers him being in the hospital. She didn't know about the time at the Crile Army Hospital. She said Luke spent his whole time in Hawaii; worked on planes on the ground--did not fly. Knew about the one Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder episode when he thought he was back in the war, but she doesn't remember if he went to the Crile Army Hospital for that. Luke and her husband Frank were close before the war. Marie and Frank double-dated with Luke and another girl before the war; Luke and Virginia met after the war.
b. Note:   MI2
Note:   (Medical):From Fr. Joseph Lawrence Walter: Although this is in conflict with the Death Certificate, there is the possibility of misdiagnosis of cause of death: "Luke was one of the few people that died with Trychanosis. He contracted the disease after eating some raw ground meat for which he had a liking."


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