Walter (Wal) Mather

Dad about 1995

• Birth Notes
  • Family was living at Holt Road, Birkenhead at time of his birth in 1916.

• Death Notes
  • Service at Landican Crematorium (South Chapel)
    Reception at The Grange, Thornton Hough afterwards.
    
    Walter Mather passed away peacefully on 23rd November 2005 after a long illness.
    
    He probably died early evening, as Mum telephoned my about 9pm, while I was out with friends.  He had only just been moved from the hospital two days earlier, so it was quite unexpected just then, although we knew his time was limited.
    
    The cause of death was recorded as Lewy Body Dementure, but had also recently suffered from several strokes and also had bowl cancer.
    
    Name: Walter Mather
    Birth Date: 7 Sep 1916
    Death Registration Month/Year: Nov 2005
    Age at death (estimated): 89
    Registration district: Birkenhead
    Inferred County: Cheshire
    Register number: C22C
    District and Subdistrict: 037/1C
    Entry number: 298
    

• General Notes
  • Walter was great friends with William Harold Whieldon and his wife Violet (a.k.a. Bo and Vi). They were the local Butchers at Town Lane and dad would go and help out each Christmas, sorting the Turkeys and drinking Tea and Whisky. Sadly, Violet passed away 14 June 1989 and Bo passed away 29 June 1997.
    
    During the war, Walter was in the 8th Army, Cheshire Regiment, (the Desert Rats) and served in Malta and North Africa. He lost half a finger to a German bullet.  After the war he went fishing, with a rod made from a german tank aerial.  He also kept so other german artifacts, including a sigma machine, a portable vice, and some german medals.
    
    Like his brother Albert, he worked for Towers and Company (based at Knotty Ash, Liverpool) as a travelling salesman visiting the lancashire butchers shops.  His districts were Southport (Mon & Thu), Wigan (Wednesday, Market day), and Ormskirk and St Helens (Tue & Fri).  Much of the time was spent in the backs of the shops supping cups of tea.
    
    He was promoted to office manager in his sixties, which he took reluctantly (as he enjoyed the travelling), to get a much better salary and pension.
    
    

Details of Wal's family with (Dorothy) Joan Dittmer