Walter Brun:  

Hi! This is Walter's wife, Kathy, writing a little something about Walter's life since high school. I know that he's worked for CETA, he worked for the Calif. Conservation Corp in Pomona and the Calif. Rice Co-op in Princeton. He then came back home and started working at lumber and moulding mills such as Cal Oak, Feather River Moulding, Pacific Laminating, Lousiana Pacific until all those company's went out of business. He worked for Setzer Forest Products here in Oroville as a Finger Jointer until he injured his back on the job March 3 2004. He worked for 2 years in pain until he couldn't take it much more, so he re-opened his work comp case in 2006 and fought real hard to get the medical care he needed. Finally we decided to get him a lawyer and nurse case manager to fight his case and we're now in the settlement discussions. He "retired" from Setzer officially in November 2006, had 2 back surgerys in November 2007. He'll never be able to work hard physical labor again. He's got multi-level low back injuries that will never get better; he's still in as much pain as he was before surgery. He takes it day-by-day with pain control management. As far as family life goes~he doesn't remember much about his dad being in his life as a child, but he finally found him again in the middle 90's. They spent as much time as they could to make up for lost time. They did alot of different things together like fishing, Christmas shopping, and going to car races at Marysville Speedway. Unfortunetely his dad had a heart attack on July 4th 2000, lived in a coma for 10 days and passed away on that 10th day. From what I knew of him, he was the sweetest, kindest man you'd ever want to be friends with. ~*RIP Pops*~ Walter and Kathy's Love Story: Walter and I ...Expand for more