TORRINGTON – Funeral services for Doris E. Walter, 87, will be 10:30am Thursday, April 26, 2018, at the First Congregational Church with the Rev. Matt Gordon officiating. Burial will follow in the Hillcrest Cemetery in Lingle. Doris was called home to be with the love of her life Adam. Memorials may be given to the First Congregational Church. Visitation will be from 3 – 5pm today (Wednesday) at Colyer Funeral Home. The casket will be open at the church prior to the service on Thursday.
Arrangements are by the Colyer Funeral Home and condolences may be sent to www.colyerfuneralhome.com.
Doris was born April 22, 1930, in Scottsbluff, Neb., the daughter of William and Katherine (Erdman) Hettinger. She grew up and received her education in Goshen County, attending school at Huntley, Victory Hill and Lingle. She graduated Lingle High School in 1948.
She worked for Farm Credit Services for four years. She married Adam Walter on March 9, 1952, in Lingle. Doris worked in Goshen County for a time before they moved to Powell, where she cooked at the college there. In 1991 they moved back to Torrington. Adam died in 2010.
Doris enjoyed sewing, singing, gardening and cooking traditional German foods. She was a member of the First Congregational Church and played in the kitchen band at the Senior Center.
Doris is survived by her children Russell Walter and his wife Jody of Lingle, Tim Walter and his wife Jancy of Lingle, Robin Walter and her companion Skip Dame of Casper, Janet Knisley and her husband Mark of Cortez, Colo., and Bill Walter and his wife Erin of Kaycee; her sister Jane Sterkel of Torrington; 14 grandchildren; and 25 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a granddaughter, Ty Lynn Walter; a sister, Esther Moss; and a brother, Harold Hettinger.
