Walter Pendleton III, 88; US Navy Veteran, Alarm Company Owner

Walter Pendleton III, of Greenwich, died on Oct. 30, 2013 from a chronic illness he battled this disease for over 10 years in Bridgeport Hospital. He was 88.

Born in Greenwich on Nov. 19, 1924, he was the son of Walter Pendleton Jr. and Estelle Cummings Pendleton.

Mr. Pendleton was a veteran of the United States Navy serving during World War II on the USS Quincy, where the ship provided gunfire support during the Normandy Invasion and after in the European Theater of Operations. He was still serving on the USS Quincy in 1945 when President Roosevelt was transported to and from the Yalta Conference. He was awarded the Victory medal, The American Theater medal and the European Theater medal, 2 stars. When he returned from serving in the military, he attended West Virginia Wesleyan.

He was a very proud resident of the Town of Greenwich and served the town in many ways. He was a member of the Greenwich Police Department, first as part of Civil Defense and later as an Auxiliary Officer (Special) for over 50 years. He was also one of the first Emergency Medical Technicians on the force, taking the first EMT class held at Greenwich Hospital in the 1970s. Later in the 1970s he worked for a commercial ambulance company out of Stamford, which was the impetus for all three generations of the Pendleton men to obtain their EMT certificates.

He was a member of the Representative Town Meeting, District 8, for over a decade. As the owner /operator of his own alarm system company, The Shaton Company, he helped protect the safety and security of his customers for over 40 years. In addition to his service for the town and customers, he enjoyed spending time in the air and on the sea. He was a member of the Old Greenwich Yacht Club, in which his family were founding members and in 1963 obtained his private pilot certificate. He was also an avid genealogist, tracing back his family lineage which included being a Son of the American Revolution.

Mr. Pendleton is survived by his son, Walter (Will) Pendleton, of Greenwich; his grandson, Wyatt William Pendleton and his mother Lesley Couig Walters, both of Trumbull. He was predeceased by his wife Barbara Cornwall Pendleton.

Services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, at the Presbyterian Church of Old Greenwich, 38 West End Ave, Old Greenwich. Interment will follow at Woodland Cemetery in Stamford. Friends may call at the Fred D. Knapp & Son Funeral Home in Greenwich from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4.