Willard Irwin Waters

Willard Irwin Waters

Trinity

Funeral for Willard Irwin Waters, 78, of Trinity will be today, December 9, 2012, at 2 p.m. at Parkway Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Alan Compton officiating. Burial will be in East Lawrence Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be from noon to 2 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Waters, who died Friday, December 7, 2012, at his residence, was born June 15, 1934, in Lawrence County to William Grady and Elzie Shelton Waters. He attended Lawrence County High School and was an 11-year veteran of the United States Air Force where he served as staff sergeant. Mr. Waters was an Aviation Electronics Instructor in the United States Navy and at Ozark Aviation School. He worked as Chief of Instructors at RETS Electronic School and later worked in automation for the Alabama Farmers Coop. He was a member of Conway Baptist Church. His hobbies were biblical research and genealogy. He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Spencer, Wayne and Henry; and one sister, Naomi Waters.

Survivors include his wife, Jimmie Terry Waters; two sons, Willard Waters Jr. (Denise) of Cahaba Heights and Christopher Waters of Trinity; one daughter, Sharon Engle (Scott); five brothers, Jack, Verbon, Dwight, Paul and Oneal; three sisters, Faye Darnell, Doris Compton and Wanda Hill; nine grandchildren, Kristie Waters, Anthony Waters, Patrick Waters, Elizabeth Waters, David Waters, Eva Waters, Brandon Bryant, Christopher Bryant and Clayton Bryant; and two great-grandchildren, Bayleigh Bryant and Trevor Bryant.

Pallbearers will be Willard I. Waters Jr., Christopher Waters, Scott Engle, Brandon Bryant, Christopher Bryant, Clayton Bryant, William Waters and Patrick Waters.

This obituary was originally published in the Decatur Daily.