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It is with a very heavy heart that I announce to these Forums that SS Member ELKHUNTER http://www.steelsoldiers.com/member.php?7600-elkhunter also known as Walter or Walt Johnson, has passed away.
His beloved wife, Phyllis posted this to their facebook page just about 12 hours ago:
"I would like to thank everyone for their prayers and love it is helping to accept a very sad time in our lives. I have lost the physical partner in my life but he is in my heart and is my Guardian Angel on my shoulder. I love and miss him so much until
we can be together again.
I love you Walter."
I have messaged her to ask about service details. I will pass them along when we know something.
You may recall that Walt was an active participant in the "How Cold Is It Where You Live?" thread in the Conversations Forum here. http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?28798-How-Cold-is-it-Where-You-Live And he often wrote and shared photos of his beautiful LZ in Montana, and that it was on the trail that Lewis & Clark forged through the wilderness of the American frontier. Walt's background with the US Park Rangers and the Bureau of Land Management made him a great storyteller, passionate about the land upon which he dwelled. He marveled at God's creation all around him.
I was privileged to have met Walt and his wife Phyllis through our mutual interest in MVs via the internet and these forums, though I have never had the opportunity to meet in person. Still, I count him as a brother, as should we all.
In recent years, as Parkinsons Disease took its toll on Walt's body, it broke his heart to have to sell off his Deuce (no longer able to operate or maintain it). Without an MV, and with Parkinsons stealing his ability to type, Walt drifted from the SS forums, though Phyllis would sometimes help him get online and at least read about his old friends.
Though Walt's presence, and particularly with his passing, let us all remember that we pass this way but once. Any good that we can do along the way let us do it with great enthusiasm and recognize that it was God who created all things... for us!... Just as Walt saw it.
I know that Walt is now exploring the great richness of heaven and marveling still at what God the Creator has awaiting all of us. I somehow see him being one of heaven's park rangers.
I pray that each of you could have had a chance to have interacted with Walt Johnson. He was quite a guy. I will miss him greatly.
Let's pray...
Heavenly Father,
You have relieved Walt of his earthly pain and brought him into Your perfection. Thank you for fulfilling Your promise to this man who knew you in his heart. Be with his wife Phyllis and their children and families, and with all who knew and love him. Bring perfect comfort for the grieving and a peace over his passing that surpasses understanding. Assure us, Father, that one day when we too enter Your Heavenly Kingdom that we will meet Walt again, whole and complete without the ravages of disease or ill health. Thank You, Lord, for our salvation. In Jesus' name we pray.
AMEN.
His beloved wife, Phyllis posted this to their facebook page just about 12 hours ago:
"I would like to thank everyone for their prayers and love it is helping to accept a very sad time in our lives. I have lost the physical partner in my life but he is in my heart and is my Guardian Angel on my shoulder. I love and miss him so much until
we can be together again.
I love you Walter."
I have messaged her to ask about service details. I will pass them along when we know something.
You may recall that Walt was an active participant in the "How Cold Is It Where You Live?" thread in the Conversations Forum here. http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?28798-How-Cold-is-it-Where-You-Live And he often wrote and shared photos of his beautiful LZ in Montana, and that it was on the trail that Lewis & Clark forged through the wilderness of the American frontier. Walt's background with the US Park Rangers and the Bureau of Land Management made him a great storyteller, passionate about the land upon which he dwelled. He marveled at God's creation all around him.
I was privileged to have met Walt and his wife Phyllis through our mutual interest in MVs via the internet and these forums, though I have never had the opportunity to meet in person. Still, I count him as a brother, as should we all.
In recent years, as Parkinsons Disease took its toll on Walt's body, it broke his heart to have to sell off his Deuce (no longer able to operate or maintain it). Without an MV, and with Parkinsons stealing his ability to type, Walt drifted from the SS forums, though Phyllis would sometimes help him get online and at least read about his old friends.
Though Walt's presence, and particularly with his passing, let us all remember that we pass this way but once. Any good that we can do along the way let us do it with great enthusiasm and recognize that it was God who created all things... for us!... Just as Walt saw it.
I know that Walt is now exploring the great richness of heaven and marveling still at what God the Creator has awaiting all of us. I somehow see him being one of heaven's park rangers.
I pray that each of you could have had a chance to have interacted with Walt Johnson. He was quite a guy. I will miss him greatly.
Let's pray...
Heavenly Father,
You have relieved Walt of his earthly pain and brought him into Your perfection. Thank you for fulfilling Your promise to this man who knew you in his heart. Be with his wife Phyllis and their children and families, and with all who knew and love him. Bring perfect comfort for the grieving and a peace over his passing that surpasses understanding. Assure us, Father, that one day when we too enter Your Heavenly Kingdom that we will meet Walt again, whole and complete without the ravages of disease or ill health. Thank You, Lord, for our salvation. In Jesus' name we pray.
AMEN.
