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Tuesday, September 15, 1998     Page:

JOHN WALSH
   
September 13, 1998
    John A. “Jack” Walsh, 87, of Manhattan Street, Ashley, died Sunday at
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital.
   
Born July 6, 1911, in Rowtenstall, England, he was the son of the late John
P. and Hannah Taylor Walsh of Lancashire, England, and the Plains section of
Wilkes-Barre.
   
He attended Miners Mills public school and graduated from Coughlin High
School in 1928.
   
He was a resident of Ashley since 1951.
   
From 1937 until 1943, he delivered milk and dairy products to consumers and
retail stores.
   
Before his retirement in 1973, he was employed by the former Woodlawn Farm
Dairy Company and the Dairy Lea Milk Corporation, Wilkes-Barre, as a route
salesman for 37 years. His first route was with a horse and wagon in the
Miners Mills and Parsons sections of Wilkes-Barre.
   
He was a veteran of World War II, serving with the U.S. Army with the 157th
Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squad in the Central European Campaign and The
Ardennes, Rhineland, from 1943 to 1946, attaining the rank of command sergeant
major. He received a Soldier’s Medal of Honor for heroism at Aachen, Germany.
He earned three bronze stars for participation in The Ardennes, Rhineland
campaigns.
   
He served in the U.S. Army Reserves from October, 1943 through October,
1971, when he retired from the 402nd Military Police Prisoner of War Camp,
Wilkes-Barre.
   
He received a certificate of appreciation in September, 1971, from the 79th
Army Reserve Command, during his 22-year reserve career.
   
He was a member of St. Leo’s Church, Ashley.
   
He was a former member of the American Legion, Plains Township; VFW,
Parsons section of Wilkes-Barre; Lions Club, Plains, where he was president
from 1948 until 1951; Lions Club, Ashley, from 1951 to 1955 where served on
the board of directors.
   
He and his wife, the former Rose O’Boyle, would have celebrated 61 years of
marriage on Sept. 25.
   
He was preceded in death by a brother, Patrick, in 1984; sisters, Ann
Walsh, in November, 1994; Mary Nesler, in 1997; Elizabeth Dooley, in 1995.
   
Surviving, in addition to his wife, are a son, John P. Walsh, at home;
daughter, Molly Jones, East End section of Wilkes-Barre; and two grandsons.
   
Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. today from the George A. Strish, Inc.,
Funeral Home, 105 N. Main St., Ashley, with a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30
a.m. at St. Leo’s Church, Ashley.
   
Interment will be in Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville, with full
military honors at 11 a.m. Thursday.
   
In lieu of flowers, memorial