Henry B. Walters

CALAIS — Henry Blodgett Walters, 80, of Calais, died May 17, 2012, at Central Vermont Medical Center. Born in 1931, in Marietta, Pa., he was the son of Elizabeth Blodgett and Elmer Paul Walters.

He graduated from Elizabethtown High School in 1949, and also attended the Lancaster Friends Meeting.

Henry was the maintenance foreman at Safe Harbor Water Power Corporation in Pennsylvania from 1955 until his retirement in 1995.

Born to a farming family, his life-long dream was to own a small farm when he retired. In his Vermont retirement, he realized that dream when he and his wife Patricia bought a homestead in Calais.

Henry is survived by his wife, Patricia Whitaker Walters; son, Philip C. Walters of Lancaster, Pa.; daughters, Cheryl Walters Wentz of Houston, Texas and Colleen M. Walters of Philadelphia; sister, Nancy Reider of Elizabethtown, Pa., six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.