Walter Jennings

The family of Rev. Dr. Walter (Barney) Jennings wishes to thank all our friends and well-wishers for the many prayers, cards, flowers, gifts, visits, donations to Woltz Hospice Home and kind thoughts and words for this very special Deacon/Dentist who has devoted his life to helping others. His devotion to his assigned Churches, St. Mary's Catholic Church in Wytheville and St. Edwards in Pulaski and to his prison ministry and his dental work in his profession for over 48 years was a tribute to his love of mankind. Our dear man is very much missed and always will be, but he lives on in what he taught his family and others by his kindness and caring and just plain being himself. He was known to sit and eat at the lunch table with the children in school he loved all of them and they knew it. He was an excellent Dentist who worked both in private practice and for the State of Virginia and was a wonderful role model for many. He actually worked on 4 generations of the same family. Not many people can say they worked to the age of 80 as he considered his work as a ministry. What a privilege it has been to be his wife, and I, along with our sons, just wanted to thank everyone for helping him through the sudden onset of the cancer he fought so hard against, the professional staff from NRV Hospital in Radford, Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem and the Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson, NC were all skilled, caring and very much appreciated. God bless all of you. Joan Jennings and Family, Hillsville, Va.