Walter John Walsh

Friday, July 2, 2010

Walter J. "Ted" Walsh, 88, a retired contracting officer with the Navy Department and
a football referee for high schools and colleges from the 1950s through the 1990s,
died June 2 of congestive heart failure at Friends House Retirement Community in
Sandy Spring. He was a Silver Spring resident.

Mr. Walsh worked for the Navy Department from the late 1940s until his retirement in
1974.

He officiated high school football games in the Washington area before becoming a
head linesman for the Eastern College Athletic Conference. During the 1970s, he
was a commissioner of the Washington District Football Officials Association and
later was a member of Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Football Officials.

Walter John Walsh, a native of Philadelphia, grew up in Washington and was a
graduate of
Eastern High School 1940. He was a machinist at the Naval Gun
Factory at the Washington Navy Yard before serving in the Army during World War II.
His decorations include the Bronze Star.

He was an avid golfer and a member of the Maryland Interclub Seniors Golf
Association and Montgomery Country Club in Gaithersburg.

Survivors include his wife of 64 years, Emily Thour Walsh of Sandy Spring; four
daughters, Kathleen Clark of Coronado, Calif., Karen Railton of Great Falls, Christine
Sweeney of Rockville and Carolyn Walsh of Gaithersburg; seven grandchildren; and
four great-grandchildren.

-- Lauren Wiseman