Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Doris Nathalie Brubaker Walter age 99, passed away peacefully in her sleep at Quail Park's Memory Care facility on May 1, 2020.
Doris was born February 3, 1921 in Manhattan, Kansas, the youngest child of Andrew Eckert Brubaker and Bessie Lee Clark Brubaker. She attended school in Manhattan including classes at Kansas State College.
She married Charles Acton Edwards in 1941 and together they raised three children, Jerry, Karen and Jim. Theirs was a military family, with Chuck serving first in the Navy and then in the Army.
In 1977 Doris married Merton Amos Walter, a Kansas childhood friend and a Marine. Doris spent many happy hours as Mert's passenger while riding with the Oregon Retreads Motorcycle Club, and hosted meals for the group at their home in Rogue River Oregon.
Doris was preceded in death by her parents, brothers Gerald Wayne, Glenn C., and Wendell Lewis Brubaker & their wives, Jeannie, Hazel and Ina. Husbands Charles Edwards and Merton Walter, two grandchildren, Andrew Cron and Sharon Cron Bennett as well as a nephew Michael Brubaker.
Doris is survived by her children Gerald Edwards, Karen Edwards Cron (Doug) and James Edwards. Four grandchildren Janis Cron, Rebecca Cron Jones (Dean), Gwendolyn Cron Delzell and Barbara Edwards and grandson-inlaw Alan Bennett. Great grandchildren, Joseph, William, Abigail & S. Madison Bennett; David Delzell and Andrew Jones. Nieces Virginia Kinakin (Bill), Linda Ferarese (Fred), Marion Gessendorf (Gary), Nephews Mills (Vicki), David (Kaye) and Russell Brubaker (Peter) and their families.
She is also survived by Marilyn Edde, Grandchildren Heather Anderson (Brad), Sonja Feldman (Guy), and Michael Edde, great-grandchildren Brady and Courtney Anderson, Collin and Caden Feldman.
Doris is survived by cousins: Lois Trebbe, Jean Woodland, Freda Roberson, Helen Cormie, Anna Mae McMorris, Leo Rodenbaugh and Paul Rodenbaugh and their families, as well as many friends that she considered "Family".
In 2002 Doris moved to Granbury to be closer to family and became a member of Southside Baptist Church and Granbury Writers Bloc. Doris loved people, scrapbooking, writing poetry and letters. She enjoyed nature, whether camping by a lake, walking in the woods or looking at fields of wildflowers. She loved all that God made, sharing His love in her poetry.
