Gerald Halter
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, April 29, 2003
BARBOURVILLE Gerald B. Jerry Halter, 59, of Barbourville died April 27, 2003, at his home.The Camden, N.J., native was a 1962 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, a member and physical director of the YMCA in Camden, an employee of Beehive Restaurant in Ocean City, N.J., a 1968 graduate of Union College, where he was a member of the swim team, baseball team and U Club, swim coach at Union College, a Union College recruiter, recipient of the Alumni Association Distinguished Athletic Service Award, a former Union National Bank employee, an educator, administrator, mentor, director of Pupil Personnel, seventh-grade history teacher, drivers education instructor and swimming, basketball and baseball coach for Barbourville Independent Schools, a Vietnam War Navy veteran, a Kentucky Colonel, an Alumni Association board member on the Union College Board of Trustees and a board member of the Knox County Hospital. He was a son of the late Robert George Halter and Ferne Harmison Halter of Bowling Green, who survives.Memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Barbourville First United Methodist Church, where he was a member. Visitation will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday prior to the memorial service at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Knox Funeral Home.Expressions of sympathy may take the form donations to Gerald B. Halter Memorial Scholarship Fund at Union College, 310 College Street, Barbourville, KY 40906.Other survivors include his wife, Sheila Halter; two children, Jill Elaine Halter Owens and husband, Chene McKenzie, of Barbourville and Dawn Michelle Halter Krohn and husband, Brian Dale, of Lafayette, Ind.; a brother, Charles Corky Halter and wife, Scottie, of Bowling Green; his mother-in-law, Laura Dozier; two sisters-in-law, Karen Hampton and husband, John, and Deborah Tye and husband, Charlie; two brothers-in-law, Douglas Dozier and wife, Opal, and Dennis Dozier and wife, Kathy, all of Barbourville; two grandchildren, Trey McKenzie and Tori Danielle Owens; nieces and nephews, Jeffery Halter and wife, Kim, and their children, Chelsey and Laura Leigh, Timothy Halter and wife, Valerie, and their children, Mandy and Allysa, all of Bowling Green, Lori Beth Hampton, Charles Tye Jr. and wife, Wendy, and their children, Whitley, Cassie, Hunter and Maria Kay, Winston Tye and children, Tyler, Paije and Dakota, Richard Tye, Eric Dozier and wife, Shanna, Samantha, Angela and Jonathon Dozier, all of Barbourville; two aunts, Dolly Newhard and Mary Mert Girock and husband, Herman; cousins, Marcia Smith and husband, Steven, and their three children, Brian Girock and wife, Sherry, and their three children and Stefanie Wheaton and husband, Sam, all of New Jersey; and other friends and relatives.