The Rev. Walter W. Warfield, 87, Whispering Pines, Plover, a retired Baptist missionary, died at his residence Sunday, June 13, 2004.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Grace Baptist Church in Plover, with the Rev. Robert Pycraft officiating. Burial will take place at Rosedale Memorial Park in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Visitation will be at Boston Funeral Home from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The Rev. Warfield was born May 16, 1917, in Chicago, Ill., a son of the late Joseph and Rena (Eggleston) Warfield. He grew up in Chicago and graduated from Lane Tech High School and attended Moody Bible Institute.
He was married to Mildred Petree on Sept. 30, 1937, in Chicago. She died Aug. 14, 1998.
He was a missionary to the Amazon Indians in Brazil from 1937 to 1953. He then became Illinois and Missouri state missionary and camp director for the General Association of Regular Baptist Church from 1956 to 1972. He was AWANA Clubs international missions director from 1972 to 1985. He retired in 1985 and moved to Sebring, Fla., with his wife where he worked with a local jail ministry.
He moved to Whispering Pines in 2000.
He was a member of Grace Baptist Church.
Survivors include two daughters, Virginia (David) Moodie, Whiting, and Bette (Robert) Pycraft, Kentwood, Mich.; two sons, Bill (JoEllen), Greenwood, Ind., and Bob (Laurie), Stevens Point; two sisters, Lynn Hay, Trevor, Wis., and Alice Sandvick, Wheeling, Ill.; one brother, Richard, Raleigh, N.C.; 12 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
He was also preceded in death by two brothers, six sisters and one granddaughter.