By Marilyn Miller
Beacon Journal staff writer
LAKE TWP: Former Beacon Journal photographer Ted
Walls was passionate about photography and used his skills in his missionary
work even after he retired.
Mr. Walls, 82, of Lake Township, died Tuesday.
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| Ted Walls |
He retired from the newspaper in 1992 after 35
years of service. He continued taking pictures — both stills and video.
He was active in missionary work at Open M in
Akron and with his church, Uniontown United Methodist Church, helping with an
orphanage in Russia. He and his wife, Nancy, made seven trips to the Kursk
region of Russia, about 320 miles southwest of Moscow.
The orphanage, located outside the village of
Belica, was home to children abandoned by society. The children had a variety
of disabilities and medical conditions.
“I saw conditions I couldn’t believe,” Walls
once told a Beacon Journal reporter about his visits. “They were kids who had
been tossed aside.”
He said children were confined to beds that were
falling apart and the air reeked of the stench of human waste.
Walls wondered how you could see something like
that for two weeks and then live the rest of the year normally. He exposed
their living conditions in a Beacon Journal article in 1999. Readers responded
and donated more than $20,000 to help the orphanage.
Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at
the Hecker Funeral Home in Uniontown. A funeral service will be at 11 a.m.
Friday at the Uniontown United Methodist Church.
Marilyn Miller can be reached at 330-996-3098 or mmiller@thebeaconjournal.com.
To read Ted's original obituary in the BJ, click on http://bjretirees.blogspot.com/search?q=Photographer+Ted
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