13 things about US Air Force veteran Walter Elmer from Riverdale, Utah

Walter Rex Elmer was an American man from Riverdale, Weber County, Utah, United States. He is one of the 16 children of U.S. Army veteran Harvey Arnold Elmer and Helen Marie Bonnett Elmer.

After Walter graduated from Weber High School in Pleasant View, Weber County, he joined the U.S. Air Force where he served for 6 years. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He has eight brothers namely Harvey Elmer Jr., Harry Elmer, Richard Elmer, William Claude Elmer, Oliver Elmer, Rodney Wayne Elmer, Garth Elmer and Daniel Elmer.
2. He has seven sisters namely Helen Elmer, Glenda Elmer, Sally Elmer, Alice Elmer, Bridget Elmer, Elizabeth Elmer and Barbara Elmer.
3. He and his former wife Theresa Johnson have two children together namely Rex Elmer and Stephanie Elmer. Rex married Melissa Elmer.
4. On September 23, 1977, he married Theresa in Baytown, Texas, USA and became a father to her daughter Amber Johnson, then 1, who later married Doug Keyes.
5. After he and Theresa divorced in 1983, he remarried and became the stepfather of Misty Spendlove and Jonathan Spendlove.
6. On March 1, 2005, his father died at the age of 81 after a long battle with cancer.
7. In 2007, he began losing his sight.
8. On February 20, 2015, his brother Rodney died in Washington Terrace, Weber County at the age of 55.
9. On May 24, 2016, his mother died at the age of 87.
10. On January 15, 2020, his brother William died at the age of 69. William was a U.S. Army veteran. 
11. On October 1, 2019, he turned 65.
12. On September 11, 2020, he passed away at his home in Riverdale.
13. On November 21, 2022, his nephew Merrill Darrell Fackrell III assaulted a passenger on a JetBlue flight.