WATTERS, Elvin R. "Bud" 1921-2015

WATTERS, FAULKNER, LEHNER, ASCHENBRENNER, OLIPHANT

Posted By: K. L. Kittleson
Date: 9/18/2015 at 18:54:59

Elvin R. "Bud" Watters

Sept. 11, 2015

Services:
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at United Methodist Church of Hudson

Visitation:
Tuesday at Locke Funeral Home

Cemetery:
Hudson Cemetery, Hudson with military rites by Hudson American Legion Post #559, Hudson Amvet Post #82 and Cedar Falls Amvet Post #49

Biography--

Elvin R. ”Bud” Watters, 94, of Parkview Manor, Reinbeck, formerly of Waterloo and Hudson, died at Parkview Manor Nursing Home, Friday, September 11, 2015.

Elvin was born April 2, 1921, in Hudson, son of Raleigh and Agnes Faulkner Watters. Bud grew up in Hudson and graduated from Hudson High School in 1939. After high school he played professional baseball in Cape Canaveral, Florida for a minor league team for several seasons. He joined the Coast Guard in 1942 and served until October 12, 1946

While stationed in Virginia he met Kathleen Lehner who was working at the Pentagon. He married Kay on May 24, 1944 in Oil City, Pennsylvania. She died January 30, 2006.

After the War they moved to Hudson and he worked at Waterloo Mills and then was a boiler operator at UNI until retiring in 1982. He and Kay enjoyed spending time in Florida following retirement and he liked listening to music, keeping up on sports, and exercising.

Bud’s survivors include three daughters, Sharon (Douglas) Coonrad of Hudson, Barbara (James) Gooder of Radnor, Ohio, and Carol (Galen) Zimple of Traer; seven grandchildren: Jeni (Erin) Adair, Kathy (Mark) Barrie, Doug Coonrad, Jr., Andrew Gooder, Angela (Matthew) Langston, Trusha (Chris) Shimp, and Jason Zimple; ten great‑grandchildren: Corbin Gooder, Annalee Langston, Paige Langston, Kathleen Langston, Morgan Ingamells, Parker Ingamells, Jayden Adair, Sean Adair, Kacey Shimp, and Danielle Shimp; brother Dale Watters of Waterloo; several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, wife Kay, infant brother Wilber, two sisters Ethel Aschenbrenner and Ruth Oliphant, two brothers Gordon and Pete Watters.

Source: Lock Funeral Home website

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