"Well I've never been to heaven, but I've been to Oklahoma."

On April 3, 2019, Walter Dee Hackney passed away at Porter Hospital in Denver, Colorado. Walter and his wife Sue had only recently moved to Castle Rock, Colorado, in the Denver area to be closer to family.

Walter Dee was born August 13, 1937, in Coldwater, Kansas. Soon afterward, his family moved to Freedom, Oklahoma, where his father Charles Hackney, better known as "Check" and mother Leona (Fross) Hackney lived with their family for several years before settling in Alva, Oklahoma. Walter's older brother Earl (deceased) and his belo...