It is with a broken heart that we announce the passing of our driver, Walter Bohannon. He and his wife Betty were on the way to pick up the bus to take it for maintenance work when they stopped to put fuel in their car. Betty states "We were waiting in line to get fuel. Walter had put the car in park and I heard him take a funny sounding breath. When I looked toward him, his head was laid back on the head rest and I knew he was gone."
Walter and Betty had a quartet of their own for many years in the Gadsden, Alabama area. Walter was the bass singer. He LOVED this music as much as anyone could.
The quartet arrived home at 4:00 am this morning from Arkansas and Walter was his normal jovial self. It just reminds all of us that no man knows when his time here is over and that we should always be ready to meet God. Walter was a milk man for 41 years before retiring to a "simpler life" of driving the bus. But driving the bus was the least of his attributes. He was a great mentor to the young men around him as well as a wonderful friend to literally thousands of fans across the world.
Walters favorite song of recent years was on the new quartet recording. Its ironic that the first verse says "Some day this stammering tongue will falter no more. And a grander sweeter song I shall sing. For I'll join the ransomed choir on heavens bright shore, forever to praise the King. God must have needed a bass singing, bus driving milk man in heaven today. Walter will be greatly missed..........as Mark says "They just don't make Men of that caliber anymore"
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