RIchard E. Walsh, a long-time Petersburg resident who was a commercial fisherman and operator of the Wayside Country Store, died at his Scow Bay home Dec. 21.
Funeral services were conducted Dec. 27 at Petersburg Lutheran Church. Interment was at Petersburg Memorial Cemetery.
Walsh was 53. He was born at Western Bay, Newfoundland. Oct. 4, 1921 and moved with his family to Waltham, Mass. as a boy following his mother's death.
In 1940, he moved to Seattle where he worked as a journeyman machinist with Boeing Aircraft Co.
He spent a summer at Bristol Bay at Naknek, and moved to Petersburg in 1943. From 1945 to 1947 he worked at a machine shop at Craig, then returned to Petersburg to live permanently.
Survivors include his wife, Lillians; a son, Richard J. Walsh, a student of veterinary medicine at Washington State University. Pullman, Wash.; four sisters, Mrs. Muriel Guy, Waltham, Mass.; Mrs. Pearl Patterson, Boston, Mass.; Mrs. Anne Whelan, Waltham, Mass.; and Mrs. Delphine Holman, Phoenix, Ariz., and a brother, Melvin Walsh of Waltham, Mass.
During his life in Petersburg, Walsh worked at Peterson Machine Shop, the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co., the Western Marine Construction Co., and in the machinist and marine construction fields.
In recent years he was a fisherman, owning and operating the fishing boar Clara B. He also was the owner of the Wayside Country Store.
Walsh was a member of the Petersburg Elks Club Local 302, of the Operating Engineers Union, and of the Inland Boatman's Union.
