HARTWICK – Walter George Haldenwang, Jr., a long-time resident of Hartwick, passed away Wednesday, March 3, 2021, at Riverside Adult Foster Home in La Grande, Ore. He was 81.
Born Dec. 12, 1939, in Jersey City, N.J., he was the son of Walter George Haldenwang and Agnes Mayer Haldenwang, both natives of Ofterdingen, Germany.
After living in Ridgefield, N.J. for the first nine years of his life, Walter and his parents moved to Hartwick in 1948. He was employed on his parent’s poultry farm while attending Hartwick High School, until it closed in 1957.
He then attended Cooperstown High School, graduating in 1958, and then attended the State University of New York Agricultural & Technical Institute at Morrisville, graduating in 1960 with an Associate’s Degree in Forestry.