Jack E. Walsh

Jack E. Walsh, 83, of Rock Springs, passed away Nov. 2, 2016 at the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County.

He was born Dec. 10, 1932, in Farmer City, Ill., the son of Jack G. and Ruth Ann Medley Walsh.

Walsh attended schools in Gloucester, N.J., and graduated in 1948. He then attended West Point and later graduated from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Okla., where he obtained a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering.

He married Ruthanna Donges in Conshohocken, N.J., Aug. 5, 1955.

Walsh was a United States Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War. He made a career as a pilot with t...