1948
Walter
2015
Walter Knippenberg
May 2, 1948 — July 25, 2015
In loving memory of Walter William Knippenberg. Walter was known by those close to him as "Wally" or those even closer to him as "Skip". He served in the U.S. Navy and was an Engineer by trade. Wally grew up in Illinois and later moved to Las Vegas, NV where he worked for the Wynn Las Vegas. He was a son, father, brother, grandfather, husband, friend and mentor. Wally had a direct and amazing sense of humor and always made those around him laugh. Wally enjoyed bowling and being a cowboy. Maybe he wasn't really a cowboy, but he always said he was born in the wrong era and should have been one. He enjoyed watching sports and was a fan of all Chicago teams (except the White Sox). Wally is survived by 2 Daughters, Melissa Pendleton (41) and Jennifer Knippenberg (37), 5 Grandchildren, Caeleb Washington (17), Brittani Pendleton (14), Branden Washington (14), Noah Pendleton (7) and Seth Pendleton (4), 1 Sister, Sharon Camastro and Mother, Olympia Babowice.
In loving memory of my father from Jennifer Knippenberg. May you rest in peace and may we all find comfort in these words from an Adam Lee essay:
“Compared to the great vastness of the cosmos, the ocean of deep time, my individual existence is a blip, a bubble in the foam on the surface of a flowing river. I am a momentary arrangement of atoms and molecules—an arrangement that lives and moves, to be sure, an arrangement that thinks, laughs, appreciates beauty, dreams, and loves—but a mere arrangement nonetheless, a transient state, an ephemeral gathering.
Soon the blip will go out, the bubble will pop, the arrangement will dissolve, molecular bonds released by entropy. My consciousness will cease. But the molecules that once were me will still exist. The atoms that made up my body—iron, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, all the heavy elements forged in the crucibles of dying stars—will remain.
Liberated from their temporary home, they will rejoin the rest of the planet, taking new shapes, finding new arrangements, becoming part of other life. I will become merged with everything.”
Love you pop, we know you are watching over us.
In loving memory of my father from Jennifer Knippenberg. May you rest in peace and may we all find comfort in these words from an Adam Lee essay:
“Compared to the great vastness of the cosmos, the ocean of deep time, my individual existence is a blip, a bubble in the foam on the surface of a flowing river. I am a momentary arrangement of atoms and molecules—an arrangement that lives and moves, to be sure, an arrangement that thinks, laughs, appreciates beauty, dreams, and loves—but a mere arrangement nonetheless, a transient state, an ephemeral gathering.
Soon the blip will go out, the bubble will pop, the arrangement will dissolve, molecular bonds released by entropy. My consciousness will cease. But the molecules that once were me will still exist. The atoms that made up my body—iron, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, all the heavy elements forged in the crucibles of dying stars—will remain.
Liberated from their temporary home, they will rejoin the rest of the planet, taking new shapes, finding new arrangements, becoming part of other life. I will become merged with everything.”
Love you pop, we know you are watching over us.
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