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Walter Mooring

Walter S. Mooring, age 95, died Thursday, January 3, 2013, at the Pioneer Manor Nursing Home in Hay Springs, Nebraska.

Memorial services will be held on January 29, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at the Pioneer Manor Nursing Home in Hay Springs, Nebraska.

Walter was born May, 17, 1917 in Mooringsport, Louisiana, and was raised in Peatown, Texas. He served in the Army-Air Corps. In WWII, as a pilot and flew a B-24 Liberator bomber. Walter as a pilot was responsible for a crew of ten men. But he really didn’t like to talk about it.

After his service in 1951, he married Venita (Carlton) in Amarillo, Te...