Clyde A. Walters

Grandpa there's not a day goes by that I don't miss you. you were kind, gentle,stubborn and firm and a truly great man who set the foundation for what family means to me. You will always be remembered and I appreciate everything you did for me including raising me.

Faye, We all loved Clyde in life and still do now. I think about Clyde everyday. I wanted to let you and Clyde know that we are here for you in your time of sorrow, need, mourning, and healing. All my love goes to you, the girls, and their families.

I miss you. I miss you telling me about giving me a begood shot. I liked you teasing me. I love you.

Hello DADDY,
Its me again Chrissy.Just wanted to let you know that I miss you more and more everyday,and that you are in my thoughts and prayers.
And to let you know that I never hated you when I was growing up ...I know that you asked mommy why I hated you so much but I loved you so very much.You see I was young and stupid back then.I thought you and mommy were pushing me away from you guys whenever you adopted Amy but you know something if you guys had not of adopted her then you wouldnt of given me a babysister to love .And you know what I never hated you .......How could I hate you ? You have a big heart enough love in it for everybody in your live .
So now I must say this to you .I am so very proud to call you my father,my daddy, my bestfriend.
Daddy,there are so many things that I want to thank you for and I am not so sure I know where to begin...so let me start off with this.Thank You for marrying my mother,becoming my daddy,and my bestfriend,and thank you so very much for being a wonderful grandfather to all of the children,and also for being the best great-grandfather that a person could ever be.
Daddy also thank you for giving me the very breath that I breathe everyday.You want to know something ....I really cant wait to join you up there in that wonderful place they all call HEAVEN. For I really do LOVE AND MISS YOU SO VERY MUCH.
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN.
LOVE ALWAYS
Chrissy Borgstadt

It has been a month now but it feels like just yesterday when you left too go home and i will never stop cring.You meet a lot to me i'm sorry that i never told you that befor dad. Dad i will never for get you ever.You were the best dad that was on earth.I will never let your little guy forget you at all.Dad i am so happy that you got to be with Ben like you did.I miss you so much daddy i wish that you were hear with me so i could tell you all this to your face. I want you to get me mad so much daddy.I know how much that you loved that and i miss it more now that you are not here to do that too me but when i see you again i want you to make me mad again ok daddy.I will never say goodby to you i will say see you soon daddy. I love you with all my heart. Your daughter penny

everyone i know my grandpa death is hard on all of us but I am just now letting it stick that he is gone. The hardest part will be thanksgiving,chrismas and ever holiday it has now been a month and i am still in stock about his death it is hard on my mom
that was her dad but he was the worlds best grandpa. I remember alot about him.his grumpness if you left the door open the first words out of his mouth was close the door. I remember when my son was born. i had to take him back the next day and noone would take us. So my grandpa said i will take you that same day it starting snowing but we had alot of fun.I am so glad Benjermin got to know his great grandpa. He loved his grandpa very much. I loved hearing what grandpa did to him. But i wished i could have got to know him better then i do now. He was the most loving man. HE WAS THE BEST GRANDPA I COULD EVER ASK FOR AND MORE. GRANDPA I MISS YOU WITH ALL MY HEART AND MORE. love ur granddaughter and great grandson

May God Bless and watch over your family at this time of loss. Our sincere condolences.

dad i know that you loved me. I just wish that i was a better daughter to you. I am so very sorry for all the things that i did to you and all the hurt that i caused you when i was 15 and left home i wish that i could go back in time cause i would do everything better then i did then daddy i miss you so much and i love you with all my heart i will see you soon and hold you agan soon your daughter penny

Grandpa i miss you with all my heart.I wish u where here to see all the good thing i have done. You have told me to get my life together seen you have died i have done. what should have been done along time ago. i cryed last night.Seen u died i have thought about all the thing i should have done. I realize i lost you and i could lose what i love again. I want you to know. I'm glad you are not in pain now .I have always loved you. I will always let Benjermin know his great grandpa was a great man.Grandpa Benjermin will always know you .love your granddaughter jessica

Dad i love you very much. You are missed by me so much. I cry all the time for you i know that you are happy now. I will always love you with all my heart.

My heart goes out to all of the walters family, you all will be in my prayers. clyde will be greatly missed. sherry

dear,gradpa we have all missed you this last few weeks sence you have been gone. And i am still thinking about when you had called me ugly like you say to katie and tiffany to and i wish that i could played one game of canasda with you so when you played with me i would bet you at that geme and you would get made and throw a fit at me. And i hope you had meet fistey and shiane up there and i hope they did not bite you and ran away and I want to know i you meet uncle art and beause i miss him grandma to the way she would come to christmas time and we would all talk to here when she had give some of the christams gifts to us that what she had gave us and i will talk to you every chanse that i get and you better be stubern up there so i will talk to you later bye.

Clyde You are my brother and I will always love you. I am just so sorry that you had to suffer so much while you were down here. I know you are not suffering now god wil take care of you. I love you.

Fay, my heart goes out to you,for the lost of clyde.I know that empty feeling thats in your heart.But there's nothing that anyone can say or do to make that feeling go away, I love you sis. Clyde I remember when you and Fay had a little white puppy, Fay did'nt want it, and Mark really fell in love with him, and wanted him so bad,so sis gave us him.You dont know how much comfort and joy, that puppy gave to Mark and I. Mark named him rocky, because he was so tiny. When the boys went to school. I would sit and rock this baby. He gave us so much comfort when Larry went to Jesus. Can't tell you what he meant to us. Never told you this but Mark had a stuffed EASTER bunny, Mark would hide it and rocky would always find it. rocky thought the bunny was his girl friend. When we had company rocky would always find it and drag it down the stair's. and ride it again. Mark would say stop it and grab the bunny and hide it again. But rocky always found it no matter where he hide it. So when you see little rocky up there pat him and say good dog. love Susie

My sympathies goes out to the Walters family for the loss of Clyde. Mae and Ed Sparks

Hey...well looks like I won't be picking your tulips this next year. Wanna know a secret, I only done it to piss you off, and get you all mad, so you would complain until I had to plant new ones. Truth is I loved digging in the dirt, planting the flowers, hell, I even had fun helping get those bushes out. I never got to do that kinda stuff at Nin's house. And I didn't really care that you liked to tell people how mean I was as a kid, sticking my tongue out at you all the time. I am so glad I started coming over there all the time the passed 3-4 years, it felt like I was one of your grand kids too. You even got me something for Christmas every year when you didn't have to. I am glad you liked all my drawings.
Be seeing you soon.
Love Brandi
Ps. I am happy Drake got to met you even if he won't remember, I have pictures.

Grandpa
I think you for having my mommy. If it wornt for you i would not be here. And at nigth a cry myself to sleep.I LOVE YOU.

P.S. LOOK IN ON US FROM TIME TO TIME.
OH AGAIN P.S. WE MISS YOU AND
I LOVE YOU.
BYE,
KATIE (UGLY)

Grandpa,
I wish I where born a lot sooner then I was, so that I would have had more time to learn about your life before I was born. Although you are remember threw story's that I still hear from mom and grandma, I wish I would have heard them all from you. On that hostpital bed in the living room, I wish I could have heard you say "I love you too bud." for the last time...I never wanted to let go of your hand, not for the world. You touched so many people in the world, even the kindest thing you will be remembered for. And even though it was one of the hardest things that I have ever done, I spoke of you to the family. Who thought it would be so hard to talk about you, there are million's of things to say. I regret not being late for school more...or getting rides from places I could easily walked from. You never cared, you would still drop everything you where doing and come get me. Seeing you like you where on the last day really killed me inside. I actually came over expecting to see you in that chair of yours. But you where not...and I knew something was going to happen, but nothing could have prepared me for it. You taught me how to forgive and care. And if not for you then I would have probably of smothered in my depression years ago. You gave me the strength to keep moving on in life, even when it pushes back. Grandma gave me one of your old money clips, I have it on me everyday now. It helps to push tears back when I think about you, although at this very moment I cant help but cry...I cant help but hurt. I never really told you how much I loved you, or how much I looked up to you. I will always regret it... I always thought that you would be there for my graduation. But you always told me that you would try, that even if you did not you where still proud of me...you always told me you where proud of me. I never really knew what for. Mom tried to keep you as long as she could bud...no one wanted you to leave us. That was her biggest fear. You meant the world to her gramp's. Everyone of your daughters where proud of you no matter what you did. If I ever become a father, I want to be one like you where. I will never say good bye completely, if I did I would loose you, and along with that my mind. Robbies mom Kelly told me something that her father had told her... "When the sun shines, I am happy and with you. And when the rain comes, I am missing you." Now I look outside every hour to see what you are doing...it is a little thing, but it helps keep you here with me. Come to think of it, as a kid I never though you could die...everyone always gave you a time limit, but you outlasted all of them. And when the hospious came in that morning, she said you would be like that, but for a few more days...you just had to prove her wrong didnt you...old fart. Haha. I love you grandpa, and I hope that I grow up to be half the person you where your whole life. Thank you.
-Joshua

Love you and miss you and I will see you again on the other side.

Uncle Clyde,I wanted to say I love you and miss you. There's so many things to say and I don't know where to start. I guess thank you for the memories and lessons I've learned from you. When you see everyone up there give them all my love and regards. So I say see you when I get there and I love you.

uncle clyde, i will allways love you and miss you. you were a fighter.iam sorry i didnt get to spend much time with you over the last few years.you thought so many lives and iam so glad mine was one of them. i will see you again soon.so untill then iam not going to say goodbye just so long for now i love you and may god bless you the way you have others.

Clyde's life really touched alot of people. He was a fighter. He sure liked teasing everyone , and he gave us alot of memories,and for me I went to faye and clyde's with Jerry and Clyde answered the door , he turned around and told Faye that it was Jerry and a strange lady. He had alot of fun teasing everyone. He loved playing games and spending time with his family. Clyde and Faye took us down to Texas when my mother was sick and died before we got there . He was a caring person, Clyde, you will be greatly missed .Thanks for being you.And making me feel like one of your family .My thoughts are with ya all. Ann.

My sympathies go out to all those effected by the loss of Clyde.
He was a good man and has left alot of good offspring and memories behind. I think we were lucky to have him for the amount of time we had him in this world. He was a real fighter and has gone through alot in his life but never seemed to give up.
I wasn't able to spend time with him in a long time but I know
Clyde will be greatly missed by everyone that knew him.
Danny Joe

Clyde, I've written alot of stuff, poems,short stories, but by far this is the hardest, you're alot of things to me. my brother, my friend, my drinking buddy. you'll be missed by many,I'm going to miss your laugh, yelling when you would lose a game, there is so much, that I could say,but saying goodbye is not one of them. all I can say is I'll see you soon. you have made your mark on this old world, you've touched so many people. Remember when we were at dennys and I told you then that I wouldn't come to your funeral, IT wasn't because I didn't love you, it was because I didn't want to remember you like that. I wanted to remember things like the time we all went to Branson, for the xmas lights, and you hit Fay in the head with the back of the door,of your van, we all laughed, okay maybe not sis, but still that was a memory keeper. or the time we all went on a trip to mexico, and dad pulled over on the shoulder and so did you, however you slidded way down the bank. again we all laughed.after dad called you every name in the book. but still we had a great time.yes my friend you'll be missed. I know you're still here looking out over everyone, to make sure that sis is okay.and the girl's .but still when you see Everett, hit him up side the head for me, yes I still miss him. and go ahead and kick Billy, in the rear for losing my tent. But most of all give Maxs a big hug, and kiss, from all of us. You lucky son of a gun, you even get to see baby, or should I say mouse. It was a pleasure to have you in the family, and I'm proud to have had you as a brother. love you your kid sister Jerry.

My grandpa was my best friend as soon as i was introduced into this family. He took me into his family like another grandchild of his. The one thing i will remember him by is his canasta language he called me a cheater throughout the whole games i played with him and also his love for everyone in his whole family.
I love you grandpa Walters.

Hey daddy,
Its me again (Chrissy)and I wanted to let you know that I think about you more and more everyday and miss you so very much each and every day.For you are my rock and my strength to make it in this everyday world that Im still in and it hurts being here without you in it too. The girls all send you their LOVE.Katie misses you so very much.The days are so lonely without you .The nights are too but I can see you in my dreams and that brings a smile to my face. I didnt want to come home on Saturday because I know whenever I come back home to see Mom you wont be there and then it will seem so final that I lost you . If only time could stand still then you would still be here for me. But time doesnt stand still for noone.But my only hope and prayer is that I will see you one day real soon because I need a hug from you I need to feel your strong arms around me one more time and even a kiss would help me right now .Daddy how I miss you and just want to hear your voice and your laugh again .When I call home I really miss you joking around with me and you telling me that if that daughter of moms by the name of Chris calls she (mom)said that she never wanted to talk to me again. But your not there telling me that and I long to hear that just one more time . How I miss you so.
But again daddy we will meet again soon until then just remember that I LOVE YOU and Miss you and I always will .
Your Daughter
Chrissy

P.S. Mommy sends her LOVE up to you Daddy and she misses you and the little spats that you guys had.How she longs to have another one of them with you again .
I will write again real soon.I love you daddy.

Clyde, what can I say about my brother Clyde? He was one amoung a number of brothers, eight total, but Clyde was still at home when I was born. He was the brother that took the time with his youngest sister and brother.

He took us (Robert and I) to our first drive-in movie, he came and picked us up and took us trick-or-treating for the first time. When I graduated from the eighth grade, Clyde gave me $5.00 (for me that was a lot back then). He promised to give me five more when or if I graduated from high school. Well he came through with the money the day that I graduated.

It was Clyde that went with me to take my drivers test (twice). He was always protective of his little sister. When it came time for me to go to court for my divorce, well guess who was there to protect me and make sure I was okay. You guessed it, it was Clyde. When we came out of the courhouse, he made sure that the 'X' didn't get close to me.

I have been back in St. Joe for about a year and a half now after being gone for thirty years and I was just getting to know Clyde again. I am gratefull that I followed my heart and went to see Clyde on Friday the 28th of September. I stayed there all afternoon. He layed down and took a nap at one point and was pretty grumpy when he woke up (people know the story behind that so I won't go into it). When I started to leave, I was giving him a hug and kiss (if you know Clyde, you know that his hugs lasted for at least five minutes) and explaining to him that I would never lie to him. Needless to say he started chuckling. I will never forget that sound. I feel that he was taken from us too soon, but, I know that he was in so much pain and he isn't feeling that now. I know that he is with Mom and Dad and they will all be there waiting for me when it is my turn to go. I feel very blessed that I had the honor of being his sister. He was a great man. My husband said that there was never a person that didn't like Clyde, and that is right.

Clyde, I love you and will love and miss you forever.

Our sympathy is with you and your family. Clyde always seemed to enjoy the family reunions and that's about the only time we saw your family since we live so far away. He even made the trip to our place for a couple of reunions.
Janet (Clyde's cousin--his Aunt Rose Marie's daughter)

To the family of Clyde:
I am sorry for the loss of your loved one. We never met Clyde but knew a lot about him through Joshua. He will be greatly missed by family and friends.
Sorry again for your loss.
The Duncan Family

I will always remember my daddy and the special times that we had together, like the first time he tried to teach me how to drive a stick shift and he got so very mad at me and told me to get out of his truck.Heck I thought he was mad at me and was going to leave me on the side of the road but he didnt. How I will never forget that day and still today I still dont know how to drive a stick shift. Or the day we brought our little (ugly)girl home from the hospital and we had a flat tire and he taught me how to change it.What a laugh.Or the time he bought my oldest daughter clothes because I could not afford them.My babies were never in need of anything as long as daddy was around.To me these are happy times.But one of the very best times that I will always remember are my cuddle times that we had together.And I even had that SPECIAL TIME on the day that he died ,I layed right down with him on that hospital bed and cried because I had lost him in this Earthly form but I had not lost him in Heavenly form one day I will get cuddle time with him again.And honestly I look forward to that time because it is so very hard to let him go.I LOVE MY DADDY.And he will be sadly missed every day for the rest of my life.Thank you from the bottom of my heart for loving me the way that you did and helping me become a strong woman that looks just like you(even sweats just like you do).May you rest in peace daddy .
Your baby girl,
Chris.....(Chrissy)

Daddy one more thing ok,
Keep watching out for mommy and taking care of her from up there you were her rock down here and she will always love you .

Daddy you were the first man I ever loved, I will love you for the rest of my life. When everyone was talking about your life and what you ment to them I could not say anything. It wasn't because I didn't love you it was because I loved you so much. There will never be a day that I don't think about you and remember how very much I love you and miss you. Bye for now daddy, I will see you again one day. Your loving daughter Connie.

My sympathies with the family. I am sorry I didn't get to spend much time with you or your family but I know you visited with Mom & Dad often(Kenneth and Frances Smith. My prayers are with your family at this time.

My sympathies with the family. I am sorry I didn't get to spend much time with you or your family but I know you visited with Mom & Dad often(Kenneth and Frances Smith). My prayers are with your family at this time.

I have lost my buddy-my best friend. I will always love you and miss you grandpa.

Daddy,
My heart is overflowing with the love that I have for you. I am feeling a little selfish right now wanting you here to hold you,to kiss you,to hear your voice again. But deep down in my heart I know that you are in God's arms and you are at HOME at last.

I wish I could have spent more time with you. You were a fighter. Goodbye Grandpa