Bernard G. "Terry" Walding 1920 - 2005

OSHONESSY, WALDING, CONDON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen -Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/18/2019 at 19:23:50

Sioux City Journal
4 February 2005

Bernard G. "Terry" Walding, 84, of Sioux City died Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Michael's Catholic Church, with the Rev. Timothy J. Hogan, pastor, the Rev. Eugene F. Walding, brother of the deceased, and the Rev. Craig A. Collison, pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be 1 to 9 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a parish vigil service at 7 p.m., at Larkin Northside Funeral Home.

Mr. Walding was born July 10, 1920, in Sioux City, the son of Bernard F. and Edna (O'Shonessy) Walding. He graduated from Trinity High School. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946, during World War II. He was a lifelong Sioux City resident.

He married Mary C. Condon on June 9, 1947, at St. Mary's Church in Pomeroy, Iowa. He was employed with Burlington Northern Railroad, retiring as an engineer after 40 years of service.

He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and St. Michael's Catholic Church, where he taught religious education for one year. He was a member of the Cardiac Rehab at Mercy Medical Center -- Sioux City since 1994. He was a volunteer literacy tutor at Western Iowa Tech Community College. He was a former assistant Boy Scout leader, served as a baseball coach and sang in a barber shop chorus. He was a woodworker, loved the outdoors, was a wildlife observer and a fisherman. He maintained a number of bird feeders and worked on preventing the squirrels from getting at his feeders. He was an amateur artist, an avid reader and very knowledgeable about American and world history. He loved all sorts of music, but most of all, he loved spending time with his wife, children and grandchildren.

Survivors include his wife, Mary C. of Sioux City; five children, Julie Walding of Sioux City, Kathleen Bennett of Sioux City, Joseph Walding and his wife, Susan Harrold-Walding of Sioux City, Patrick Walding and his wife, Rebecca of Sioux City and Ann Walding-Phillips and her husband, David Phillips of Omaha; five brothers and sisters, Patricia Lowndes of Sioux City, Robert Walding and his wife, Kate of Sioux City, Beverly Walding of Sioux City, the Rev. Eugene Walding of Sioux City and Thomas Walding and his wife, Kathy of Norfolk, Neb.; a sister-in-law, Anne Walding of Sioux City; and 12 grandchildren, Elizabeth, Nicholas and Katie Bennett, Shawn, Erin, Megan, Monica, Benjamin, Hannah, Samuel and Madeline Walding and Aidan Phillips.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Timothy Walding; a brother, Phillip Walding; and a brother-in-law, Bob Lowndes.

Pallbearers will be David Phillips, Nicholas Bennett, Benjamin Walding and Shawn Walding.