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From: Walt Warnick <>
Subject: [MDGARRET] Walt Warnick responds
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:04:43 -0500
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To my friends and relatives--

I just want to reassure my friends and relatives on the MDGARRET List
that I remain among the living. I regret the concern and confusion
caused by the death of another Walter Warnick. I appreciate the kind
words offered by a number of folks on this List.

This was all caused by a fluke coincidence. It is a rare occasion that
I go more than a day or so without reading the MDGARRET List. Such a
rare occasion occurred this past week, when my wife Anne and I were away
visiting our daughter in Little Rock, Ankansas. When I am out of town,
I do not access my home e-mail. As fate would have it, this is
precisely the time when the news broke about another Walter Warnick
having passed away.

While I do not access my home e-mail remotely, I do access my work
e-mail. List member Shelly Johnson tracked down my work e-mail address
and sent me a message. Thanks to Shelly's initiative, the confusion
about the two Walter Warnicks was cleared up sooner than it would have
otherwise.

The Walter Warnick who passed away was descended from western Maryland
Warnicks. His full name was Charles Walter Warnick, but he went by his
middle name. Years ago, I interviewed him for my Warnick book. He was
born 4/17/1916 near Greenwood, Delaware. At Harrington, Delaware, on
3/15/1942, he married Mary Hazel Pearson who was born 12/17/1921 at
Harrington, Delaware. Walter was very interested in his Warnick
ancestors. As noted on this List, he recently died of West Nile virus.

He was son of Charles Warnick who was born 12/23/1883 near New Germany.
At Cumberland on 5/29/1907, Charles married Magdalena "Maggie" Wisseman
who was born 10/30/1878, near Accident, MD. Maggie's parents were
Conrad Wisseman and Barbara Bender. Maggie was Mennonite. Sometime in
the 1910s, a number of western Maryland Mennonite families relocated to
the vicinity of Greenwood, Delaware, and Maggie and her children were
among them. Charles died 12/8/1916 at a hospital in Baltimore. He is
buried at Springs, PA. Maggie lived most of her life at Greenwood,
Delaware, near a number of other Mennonite families related to her.

Walt Warnick

PS for Connie: Anne and I now have two plots in the Bittinger Cemetery
near the plots of my parents, maternal grandparents and great-grandparents.





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