Walter Alfred Engrav

Walter A. Engrav, 86, of Waukon, IA, died Thursday, September 30, 2021, at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. Memorial services will be held Wednesday, October 6th, at 1:00 PM at Martin - Grau Funeral Home in Waukon, with Pastor Bryan Robertson officiating. Friends may call from 11:00 AM until time of services at the funeral home on Wednesday.

Walter Alfred Engrav was born November 26, 1934, in Neosho, MO, the son of Walter and Mildred (Dahly) Engrav. He and his family moved to Minnesota when he was a toddler. Walter attended school in Preston, MN, and Harmony, MN, where he enjoyed playing football lettering his freshman year. He joined the US Navy in 1952 until 1955, serving during the Korean War as an Airman 1st class aviation ordinance, and earned his GED.

On May 24, 1955, he married Betty Ann Selin in Viroqua, WI. After they were married, they moved to Marion, IA, and he went to work for Quaker Oats in Cedar Rapids, IA, where served as the vice president of the union. In 1967, he went to work for Tri-State Breeders (Accelerated Genetics) until 2004, when he retired. They lived in Decorah, IA, Richland Center, WI, Waukon, IA, before settling in Pea Rock Ridge, AR. They moved back to Waukon in July of 2021.

Walter enjoyed spending time in the outdoors and loved fishing and hunting. He was an avid Iowa Hawkeye fan and Green Bay Packers fan. Church was very important to him he had a strong faith in God. Walter held many positions in the church and taught Sunday School for 30 years.

Survivors include his wife Betty Engrav of Waukon; his four children: Rhonda (David) Bahr, Colleen Wicks, Steve (friend Kathy Fahey) Engrav all of Waukon, and Robert (Mikki) Engrav of Batesville, AR; 12 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; a son-in-law Jeff Thornton of Columbia, TN; three brothers: Roger Engrav of St. Louis, MO, Richard (Edna) Engrav of Copperas Cove, TX, and Curtis Snitker of Lansing, IA; two sisters-in-law: Lois Selin of Viroqua, WI, and Diane Amann of Winona, MN; two brothers-in-law: Ronnie Amann of Viroqua, WI, and Ronald Tollackson of Westby, WI; several nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his parents; a daughter Patty Thornton; a daughter-in-law Mary Engrav; and a grandson Kevin Bulman; two step-fathers: Art Snitker and Clarence Carroll; a brother Francis Engrav; and one in infancy Robert Engrav.

Honorary casketbearers are Walter's grandchildren.