We regret to advise of the death of Walter Leon Morasiewicz on 10 March 2017 at Wentworth Lodge, Dundas ON in his 96th year.
Walter was born in Buczacz, Ternopil, Ukraine, arriving in Canada in July 1929, he grew up in Thorold South. He was trained as a machinist and electrician and was a Royal Canadian Engineer veteran of the Second World War, serving from 1942 until 1944. Walter and his wife family lived for 60 years in Merritton and raised a family of three. He was an employee at the Beaver Wood Fibre Company for 42 years, retiring in 1986.
Walter is resting at the Bocchinfuso Funeral Home in Thorold. Visitation will be held Wednesday, 15 March from 12 until 1 PM followed by a Funeral Liturgy outside of Mass in the funeral home chapel at 1 PM. Following the service, burial will take place at Victoria Lawn Cemetery in St. Catharines. Instead flowers, donations to the Heart & Stroke Foundation would be appreciated.
