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Notes for Walter Leedom CADWALLADER
From Philadelphia Inquirer, 27 Jan 2006:
Walter Leedom Cadwallader, 82, of Yardley, a Bucks County business owner and community activist, died of melanoma Jan. 19 at home.
Mr. Cadwallader grew up in Yardley. During World War II, he served in the Marine Corps in the South Pacific.
After his discharge, he owned and operated a taxi and airport shuttle service in Bucks County. In the 1950s, he was a part-time police officer in Yardley and was acting chief of police in 1955 when the Delaware River flooded half of the borough.
From the 1940s to the 1970s, he ran a fuel-oil business and a road construction and excavation company. Then, for 30 years until retiring in 2002, he operated an asphalt seal-coating and road traffic-marking firm.
For 25 years, until the late 1980s, he was also a bus driver for the Pennsbury School District. His dinner was always waiting in the oven, his son Christopher said, because he was always getting home late.
He was a member of Yardley's Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6393, the fire company, and the businessman's association, and was a founder of the Yardley-Lower Makefield Ambulance Squad. He enjoyed travel, ballroom dancing and tennis, and was past president of the Princeton Singles Club.
In addition to son Christopher, he is survived by son Walter Jr.; daughters Nancy, Suzanne Horner, Dorie Martucci; two sisters; and six grandchildren. His former wife, Neva Powell, and longtime companion, Marian McClean, are deceased.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Yardley Friends Meeting House, 65 N. Main St., Yardley. Friends may call from 10:30 a.m.
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