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Walter "Walt" Lavender was born January 19, 1940 in Altus, Oklahoma to Walter Miller and Myrtle Eugenia "Jean" (Davis) Lavender. He spent much of his youth in the Dundee, Holliday, Kamay, Wichita Falls area. Walter was the oldest of four boys and answered to the family nickname "Pinkey" - which some family members call him by this name today. As a youth he boxed and played football with his younger brothers before he joined the Navy on April 11, 1961. It was while he was stationed in San Diego that he met his future bride Sharon McShane, and after a whirlwind romance, they married in 1967.
Walter served in Vietnam, Guam, Cambodia, the Philippines, and South Carolina before he finally settled in Lorena, Texas. He sailed on the USS Iwo Jima, USS Dewey, and the USS Ward as a medic and eventually became an x-ray technician. Walter also served faithfully at the One Stop in Waco where he worked with other veterans with a focus on helping our service men and women living with PTSD. Walter bowled with a special needs league for Waco youth, volunteered with the Lorena Global Methodist Church, and served as judge for the City of Lorena.
He was preceded in death by his parents Walter Miller Lavender I and Jean Vaughan, his brother Robert "Keith" Lavender, and his son Clint Walter Lavender.
Walter is survived by his loving wife Sharon; daughter Jennifer; daughter-in-law Shelby; four grandchildren - Todd (Heather) Lamey and Dakota Lamey, Madilyn "Freya" Lavender and Harrison Lavender; great-grandson Brandon Lamey; brothers Jay Lavender and Mickey Lavender of Wichita Falls.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to be made to the Heart of Texas Veterans One Stop of Waco, Texas.
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