| Name |
Walter Charles MEYER |
| Burial |
SEC 18, LOT 20 |
Greenfield Cemetery, Uniondale (Hempstead), Nassau Co, NY  [1, 2] |
| Birth |
28 Aug 1913 |
Brooklyn, Kings Co, NY |
| Gender |
Male |
| Military |
ENLISTED 11/12/1942 [1, 3] |
| U.S. Army, Europe |
| Education |
Hempstead High School, 4 years college [3, 4] |
| Occupation |
editor at New York Daily News [1] |
- Walter C. Meyer began his 43-year career at the Daily News as a copy boy in 1937, and later became a caption writer. In the 1960s, he was an editor for the paper's Sunday magazine. He retired from the newspaper in 1979. During World War II, he was drafted to work for the Army newspaper, the Stars & Stripes. But initially a mistake put him in charge of truck loading details in France. While in Europe, he covered the Nuremberg trials for several Long Island newspapers.
He was also an art and music enthusiast, and had been a member of the Oceanside Fire Department from the mid-1940s to 1972, when he and his family moved to Garden City.
[Obituary, Newsday (Suffolk Edition), Melville, New York, Sunday, November 16, 1997]
|
| Residence |
SINCE 1972 |
Garden City, Nassau Co, NY [5] |
| Death |
11 Nov 1997 |
Kings Park, Suffolk Co, NY [6] |
| Cause: Alzheimers disease |
| Person ID |
I58531 |
Doddridge County Roots |
| Last Modified |
25 Oct 2025 |
1913 - 1997 (84 years)